Exploring cortical subplate evolution using magnetic resonance imaging of the fetal brain

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 211-220

  Perkins, L ^a   Hughes, E ^b   Srinivasan, L ^a   Allsop, J ^a   Glover, A ^b   Kumar, S ^c   Fisk, N ^c   Rutherford, M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fetal cortex; Magnetic resonance imaging; Subplate

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN MAPPING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREGNANCY; STEM CELLS; TELENCEPHALON; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 37149015988     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109864     Document Type: Article

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