Leftward asymmetry in relative fiber density of the arcuate fasciculus

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 791-794

  Nucifora, Paolo G P ^a   Verma, Ragini ^a   Melhem, Elias R ^a   Gur, Raquel E ^a   Gur, Ruben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcuate fasciculus; Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging; Neural pathways; Pyramidal tracts

Indexed keywords

ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 19544377842     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200505310-00002     Document Type: Article

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