Construction of a stereotaxic DTI atlas with full diffusion tensor information for studying white matter maturation from childhood to adolescence using tractography-based segmentations

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 470-486

  Verhoeven, Judith S ^a   Sage, Caroline A ^a   Leemans, Alexander ^b,c   Van Hecke, Wim ^d   Callaert, Dorothée ^e   Peeters, Ronald ^a   De Cock, Paul ^a   Lagae, Lieven ^a   Sunaert, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain atlas framework; DTI template; Laterality; White matter maturation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; ANISOTROPY; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77149124858     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20880     Document Type: Article

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