Statistical shape analysis of differences in the shape of the corpus callosum between genders

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 825-830

  Ozdemir, Senem Turan ^a   Ercan, Ilker ^a   Sevinc, Ozdemir ^b   Guney, Ibrahim ^a   Ocakoglu, Gokhan ^a   Aslan, Elif ^a   Barut, Cagatay ^c  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DUZCE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; EDMA; Geometric morphometrics; Sexual dimorphism; Statistical shape analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34547479771     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20558     Document Type: Article

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