Diffusion tractography based group mapping of major white-matter pathways in the human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1545-1555

  Ciccarelli, O ^a   Toosy, A T ^a   Parker, G J M ^b   Wheeler Kingshott, C A M ^a   Barker, G J ^a   Miller, D H ^a   Thompson, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0041924758     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00190-3     Document Type: Article

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