Morphological development of the brain: What has imaging told us?

Neuroimaging in Developmental Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5-21

  Lu, Lisa H ^a   Sowell, Elizabeth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PATTERN MATCHING; TISSUE;

ANATOMICAL VARIABILITY; DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL INTENSITY VARIATIONS; VOLUMETRIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; VOXEL-BASED MORPHOMETRY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 76149083394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511757402.004     Document Type: Chapter

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