Quantifying the effects of normal ageing on white matter structure using unsupervised tract shape modelling

NeuroImage

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Bastin, Mark E ^a   Maniega, Susana Muñoz ^a   Ferguson, Karen J ^a   Brown, Laura J ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a   MacLullich, Alasdair M J ^a   Clayden, Jonathan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Tractography; Water diffusion tensor; White matter

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; BODY WATER; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN SIZE; PROBABILITY;

EID: 77950542411     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.02.036     Document Type: Article

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