Differential effects of age and history of hypertension on regional brain volumes and iron

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 750-759

  Rodrigue, Karen M ^a   Haacke, E Mark ^b   Raz, Naftali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; Iron; MRI; Susceptibility weighted imaging; Vascular risk

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RELAXOMETRY; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 78649663704     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.068     Document Type: Article

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