Comparison of overall brain volume and midsagittal corpus callosum surface area as obtained from NMR scans and direct anatomical measures: A within-subject study on autopsy brains

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1375-1381

  Peters, M ^a   Jancke L ^c   Zilles, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Brain; Corpus Callosum; NMR; Size; Volume

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN SIZE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 0343081672     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00048-8     Document Type: Article

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