Functional diffusion tensor imaging: Measuring task-related fractional anisotropy changes in the human brain along white matter tracts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Mandl, René C W ^a   Schnack, Hugo G ^a   Zwiers, Marcel P ^b   van der Schaaf, Arjen ^a   Kahn, René S ^a   Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL ACTIVATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TACTILE STIMULATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE TRACT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

EID: 56149091996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003631     Document Type: Article

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