Evidence of Subcortical and Cortical Aging of the Acoustic Pathway: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Study

Academic Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 692-700

  Lutz, Juergen ^a   Hemminger, Felix ^a   Stahl, Robert ^a   Dietrich, Olaf ^a   Hempel, Martin ^a   Reiser, Maximilian ^a   Jäger, Lorenz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

aging, auditory pathway; apparent diffusion coefficient; Diffusion tensor imaging; fractional anisotropy; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34250195801     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

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