Laterality and aging of thalamic subregions measured by diffusion tensor imaging

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1071-1075

  Ota, Miho ^a,b   Obata, Takayuki ^a   Akine, Yoshihide ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Matsumoto, Ryohei ^a   Ikehira, Hiroo ^a   Asada, Takashi ^c   Suhara, Tetsuya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Fractional anisotropy; Mean diffusivity; Projection area; Thalamic subregion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THALAMUS;

EID: 34250189899     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3281c10e27     Document Type: Article

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