Effects of gender and age on anterior commissure volume

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 500, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 92-94

  Choi, Mi Hyun ^a   Kim, Ji Hye ^a   Yeon, Hong Won ^a   Choi, Jin Seung ^a   Park, Jang Yeon ^a   Jun, Jae Hoon ^a   Lee, Beob Yi ^b   Kim, Hyun Jun ^a   Tack, Gye Rae ^a   Chung, Soon Cheol ^a  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Age; Anterior commissure volume; Gender; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960449343     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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