Diffusion Imaging of Congenital Brain Malformations

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 111-119

  Wahl, Mike ^a   Mukherjee, Pratik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MALFORMATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE PARALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; PONTINE TEGMENTAL CAP DYSPLASIA; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS;

EID: 70349165446     PISSN: 10719091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2009.07.002     Document Type: Review

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