Effect of head size on diffusion tensor imaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 958-967

  Takao, Hidemasa ^a   Hayashi, Naoto ^a   Inano, Sachiko ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Head size; Intracranial volume; Mean diffusivity; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEPHALOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959717294     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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