Longitudinal changes in cortical thickness associated with normal aging

NeuroImage

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1215-1223

  Thambisetty, Madhav ^a   Wan, Jing ^b   Carass, Aaron ^b   An, Yang ^a   Prince, Jerry L ^b   Resnick, Susan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THICKNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77954952162     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.04.258     Document Type: Article

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