Focal decline of cortical thickness in Alzheimer's disease identified by computational neuroanatomy

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 995-1001

  Lerch, Jason P ^a   Pruessner, Jens C ^a,b   Zijdenbos, Alex ^a   Hampel, Harald ^b   Teipel, Stefan J ^b   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Automated 3 D image analysis; Cortical thickness; MRI; Neuroinformatics; Neuropathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUBICULUM; TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 17644376338     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh200     Document Type: Article

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