Directional colour encoding of the human thalamus by diffusion tensor imaging

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 434, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 322-327

  Unrath, Alexander ^a   Klose, Uwe ^b   Grodd, Wolfgang ^b   Ludolph, Albert C ^a   Kassubek, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b the CNS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THALAMUS;

EID: 40849094130     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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