Quantitative diffusion tensor imaging of the brain in young adults shows age-related structural changes in gray and white matter

Academic Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 265-267

  Krejza, J ^a,b   Melhem, E R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETICS; GRAY MATTER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 14844339072     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2005.02.003     Document Type: Editorial

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