A DTI-derived measure of cortico-cortical connectivity

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1023-1036

  Zalesky, Andrew ^a   Fornito, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical connectivity; Cortical network; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Edmonds Karp algorithm; Fiber tracking; Link disjoint paths; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Shortest path; Structural adjacency matrix (SAM); Tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL CONNECTIVITY; CORTICAL NETWORK; DIFFUSION-TENSOR IMAGING (DTI); EDMONDS-KARP ALGORITHM; FIBER TRACKING; LINK-DISJOINT PATHS; SHORTEST PATH; STRUCTURAL ADJACENCY MATRIX (SAM); TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; FIBERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE NET; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 67649515596     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2012113     Document Type: Article

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