Grid infrastructures for computational neuroscience: The neuGRID example

Future Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 703-722

  Redolfi, Alberto ^a   McClatchey, Richard ^b   Anjum, Ashiq ^b   Zijdenbos, Alex ^c   Manset, David ^d   Barkhof, Frederik ^e   Spenger, Christian ^c   Legré, Yannik ^f   Wahlund, Lars Olof ^g   Di San Pietro, Chiara Barattieri ^a   Frisoni, Giovanni B ^a  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c Prodema Medical ^*  (Switzerland)

^d Maat Gknowledge   (France)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f HealthGrid   (France)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Grid architecture; Medical imaging; neuGRID; Parallel computing; Remote experiment

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA BASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 75249107585     PISSN: 14796708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fnl.09.53     Document Type: Review

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