A novel approach to the human connectome: Ultra-high resolution mapping of fiber tracts in the brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1091-1101

  Axer, Markus ^a,b   Amunts, Katrin ^a,c   Grässel, David ^a   Palm, Christoph ^a   Dammers, Jürgen ^a   Axer, Hubertus ^d   Pietrzyk, Uwe ^a,b   Zilles, Karl ^a,e  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIREFRINGENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 78649703251     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.08.075     Document Type: Article

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