Structural MRI in autism spectrum disorder

Pediatric Research

Volumn 69, Issue 5 PART 2, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Rong ^a   Jiao, Yun ^a   Herskovits, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE BASED MORPHOMETRY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TENSOR BASED MORPHOMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 79954627753     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e318212c2b3     Document Type: Article

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