Selective effects of aging on brain white matter microstructure: A diffusion tensor imaging tractography study

NeuroImage

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1190-1201

  Michielse, Stijn ^a,b   Coupland, Nick ^a   Camicioli, Richard ^a   Carter, Rawle ^a   Seres, Peter ^a   Sabino, Jennifer ^a   Malykhin, Nikolai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ZUYD UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Cerebrospinal fluid; Cingulum; Corpus callosum; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fornix; Gray matter; MRI; Tractography; Uncinate fasciculus; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CINGULATE GYRUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 77954955856     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.019     Document Type: Article

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