Challenges and limitations of quantifying brain connectivity in vivo with diffusion MRI

Imaging in Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 341-355

  Jones, Derek K ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

connectivity ndiffusion; fractional anisotropy; MRI; probabilistic; tractography; white matter

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 77954090251     PISSN: 17555191     EISSN: 17555205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/iim.10.21     Document Type: Review

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