Quantifying the link between anatomical connectivity, gray matter volume and regional cerebral blood flow: An integrative MRI study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Várkuti, Bálint ^a,c   Cavusoglu, Mustafa ^b   Kullik, Alexander ^a   Schiffler, Björn ^d   Veit, Ralf ^a   Yilmaz, Özge ^a   Rosenstiel, Wolfgang ^a   Braun, Christoph ^a,e   Uludag, Kamil ^b   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,f   Sitaram, Ranganatha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e CIMeC Centro interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello   (Italy)

^f SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPIN LABELING; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PERFUSION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; ORGAN SIZE; PERFUSION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955540144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014801     Document Type: Article

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