Age-related regional variations of the corpus callosum identified by diffusion tensor tractography

NeuroImage

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-31

  Lebel, Catherine ^a   Caverhill Godkewitsch, Saul ^a   Beaulieu, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Corpus callosum; Development; Diffusion tensor imaging; Maturation; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; AGING; ANISOTROPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ANISOTROPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN SIZE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953289559     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.03.072     Document Type: Article

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