Is the brain cortex a fractal?

NeuroImage

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1765-1774

  Kiselev, Valerij G ^a,d   Hahn, Klaus R ^b   Auer, Dorothee P ^c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0345415005     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00380-X     Document Type: Article

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