Sex differences in the human connectome: 4-Tesla high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) tractography in 234 young adult twins

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 939-943

  Jahanshad, Neda ^a   Aganj, Iman ^b   Lenglet, Christophe ^b,c   Joshi, Anand ^a   Jin, Yan ^a   Barysheva, Marina ^a   McMahon, Katie L ^d   De Zubicaray, Greig I ^d   Martin, Nicholas G ^e   Wright, Margaret J ^d,e   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Sapiro, Guillermo ^b   Thompson, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI); human connectome; inter hemispheric connectivity; network analysis; tractography

Indexed keywords

4 TESLA; BEHAVIORAL TRAITS; CORTICAL SURFACES; DIFFUSION IMAGING; FIBER TRACTS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC SPECIALIZATION; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; HIGH-ANGULAR RESOLUTION; HUMAN CONNECTOME; IN-LINE; INTER-HEMISPHERIC CONNECTIVITY; MEAN AGES; MRI SCAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLID ANGLE; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRANSFORM METHODS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 80055044382     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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