The average pathlength map: A diffusion MRI tractography-derived index for studying brain pathology

NeuroImage

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 133-141

  Pannek, Kerstin ^a   Mathias, Jane L ^b   Bigler, Erin D ^c   Brown, Greg ^d   Taylor, Jamie D ^d   Rose, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Constrained spherical deconvolution; Diffusion weighted imaging; HARDI; Magnetic resonance; Quantitative tractography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; AVERAGE PATHLENGTH MAP; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78951481634     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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