Diffusion imaging of whole, post-mortem human brains on a clinical MRI scanner

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 167-181

  Miller, Karla L ^a   Stagg, Charlotte J ^a   Douaud, Gwenaëlle ^a   Jbabdi, Saad ^a   Smith, Stephen M ^a   Behrens, Timothy E J ^a   Jenkinson, Mark ^a   Chance, Steven A ^a   Esiri, Margaret M ^a   Voets, Natalie L ^a   Jenkinson, Ned ^a   Aziz, Tipu Z ^a   Turner, Martin R ^a   Johansen Berg, Heidi ^a   McNab, Jennifer A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffusion tensor imaging; Human; Post mortem; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CADAVER; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 79956209680     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.070     Document Type: Article

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