Diffusion tensor imaging of adult age differences in cerebral white matter: Relation to response time

NeuroImage

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1174-1181

  Madden, David J ^a   Whiting, Wythe L ^a   Huettel, Scott A ^a   White, Leonard E ^a   MacFall, James R ^a   Provenzale, James M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 1542346199     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.11.004     Document Type: Article

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