An allometric scaling law between gray matter and white matter of cerebral cortex

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 864-867

  He, Ji Huan ^a  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METABOLISM;

ALLOMETRIC SCALING; CORTICAL WHITE; METABOLIC RATES; WHITE MATTER;

FRACTALS;

EID: 24344480016     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2005.04.081     Document Type: Article

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