Diffusion properties of NAA in human corpus callosum as studied with diffusion tensor spectroscopy

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1045-1053

  Upadhyay, Jaymin ^a,b   Hallock, Kevin ^a   Erb, Kelley ^a   Kim, Dae Shik ^a   Ronen, Itamar ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal fibers; Corpus callosum; Diffusion tensor; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; NAA

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULES; TENSORS;

CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEGREE OF ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION PROPERTIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR; EXTRACELLULAR DIFFUSION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; INTRACELLULAR SPACES;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; WATER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 35948982240     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21372     Document Type: Article

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