Quantitative diffusion-tensor anisotropy brain MR imaging: Normative human data and anatomic analysis

Radiology

Volumn 212, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 770-784

  Shimony, Joshua S ^a   McKinstry, Robert C ^a   Akbudak, Erbil ^a   Aronovitz, Joseph A ^a   Snyder, Abraham Z ^a   Lori, Nicolas F ^a   Cull, Thomas S ^a   Conturo, Thomas E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain, diffusion; Brain, gray matter; Brain, MR; Brain, white matter; Magnetic resonance (MR), diffusion study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0032849475     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.212.3.r99au51770     Document Type: Article

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