Abnormal diffusion of cerebral white matter in early blindness

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 220-227

  Shu, Ni ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Li, Kuncheng ^b   Yu, Chunshui ^b   Jiang, Tianzi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Early blind; Tractography; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMATURITY; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ATROPHY; AXONS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149348715     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20507     Document Type: Article

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