Visualizing White Matter Pathways in the Living Human Brain: Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Beyond

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 407-426

  Hess, Christopher P ^a   Mukherjee, Pratik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 35648948854     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2007.07.002     Document Type: Review

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