Reliable callosal measurement: Population normative data confirm sex-related differences

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 410-418

  Mitchell, Tejal N ^a   Free, Samantha L ^a,b   Merschhemke, Martin ^a,c   Lemieux, Louis ^a,b   Sisodiya, Sanjay M ^a,b   Shorvon, Simon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

^c MARTIN LUTHER KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0037346518     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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