The impact of aging and gender on brain viscoelasticity

NeuroImage

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 652-657

  Sack, Ingolf ^a   Beierbach, Bernd ^a   Wuerfel, Jens ^b   Klatt, Dieter ^a   Hamhaber, Uwe ^a   Papazoglou, Sebastian ^a   Martus, Peter ^a   Braun, Jürgen ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b University of Schleswig Holstein   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Brain viscoelasticity; Rheology; Sex; Springpot; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISCOELASTICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SEX FACTORS; VISCOSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64949170822     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.02.040     Document Type: Article

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