Functional-anatomical validation and individual variation of diffusion tractography-based segmentation of the human thalamus

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-39

  Johansen Berg, Heidi ^a,c   Behrens, Timothy E J ^a   Sillery, Emma ^a   Ciccarelli, Olga ^b   Thompson, Alan J ^b   Smith, Stephen M ^a   Matthews, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlas; Cytoarchitecture; Diffusion imaging; FMRI; Neocortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THALAMUS;

EID: 10944268079     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh105     Document Type: Article

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