Fractal dimension as an index of brain cortical changes throughout life

In Vivo

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 641-646

  Kalmanti, Elina ^a,b   Maris, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Psychiatric Hospital of Attika Dafni   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brain cortex; Fractal dimension

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUBERTY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 34547787602     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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