Age-related non-Gaussian diffusion patterns in the prefrontal brain

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1345-1350

  Falangola, Maria F ^a,b,c   Jensen, Jens H ^a   Babb, James S ^a   Hu, Caixia ^a   Castellanos, Francisco X ^a,b   Di Martino, Adriana ^a   Ferris, Steven H ^a   Helpern, Joseph A ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Center for Biomedical Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffusion; DKI; Kurtosis; MRI; Non Gaussian

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSIONAL KURTOSIS IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 57049092242     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21604     Document Type: Article

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