In utero tractography of fetal white matter development

NeuroImage

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 213-224

  Kasprian, Gregor ^a   Brugger, Peter C ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Krssák, Martin ^a   Krampl, Elisabeth ^a   Herold, Christian ^a   Prayer, Daniela ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain development; Brain symmetry; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fetal MRI; Fiber tracking; In utero imaging; White matter maturation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 53049102006     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.07.026     Document Type: Article

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