Detecting abnormalities of corpus callosum connectivity in autism using magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor tractography

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 333-339

  Hong, Shanshan ^c   Ke, Xiaoyan ^a   Tang, Tianyu ^b   Hang, Yueyue ^a   Chu, Kangkang ^a   Huang, Haiqing ^b   Ruan, Zongcai ^b   Lu, Zuhong ^b   Tao, Guotai ^a   Liu, Yijun ^d  

^a THE AFFILIATED BRAIN HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Southeast University   (China)

^c JIANGYIN PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autistic disorder; DTI; Fiber tractography; MRI; White matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 82455210980     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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