Using diffusion imaging to study human connectional anatomy

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue , 2009, Pages 75-94

  Johansen Berg, Heidi ^a   Rushworth, Matthew F S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Human brain anatomy; Projection; Tractography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION TRACTOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MONKEY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; VALIDATION STUDY; WHITE MATTER;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMY; PRIMATES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67651048947     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.051508.135735     Document Type: Review

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