Functional anatomy of interhemispheric cortical connections in the human brain

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 311-320

  Zarei, Mojtaba ^a   Johansen Berg, Heidi ^a   Smith, Steve ^a   Ciccarelli, Olga ^b   Thompson, Alan J ^b   Matthews, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Diffusion tensor imaging; Human corpus callosum; Mapping; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GEOMETRY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33747675476     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2006.00615.x     Document Type: Article

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