Quantifying degeneration of white matter in normal aging using fractal dimension

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1543-1555

  Zhang, Luduan ^a,b   Dean, David ^b,c   Liu, Jing Z ^a,c   Sahgal, Vinod ^a   Wang, Xiaofeng ^a   Yue, Guang H ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Box counting dimension; Fractal dimension (FD); Gray matter; Magnetic resonance imaging; Skeleton; White matter structure asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FRACTALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 34547778511     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.06.020     Document Type: Article

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