Multiple indicators of age-related differences in cerebral white matter and the modifying effects of hypertension

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2083-2093

  Burgmans, S ^a   van Boxtel, M P J ^a   Gronenschild, E H B M ^a   Vuurman, E F P M ^a   Hofman, P ^a,b   Uylings, H B M ^a,c   Jolles, J ^a,d   Raz, N ^e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 71849083194     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.035     Document Type: Article

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