Effects of age and gender on white matter integrity

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2103-2109

  Inano, Sachiko ^a   Takao, H ^a   Hayashi, N ^a   Abe, O ^b   Ohtomo, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER INTEGRITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84455188355     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2785     Document Type: Article

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