Morphometric MRI evaluation of corpus callosum and ventricles in normal adults

Neurological Research

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1044-1049

  Karakaş, Pinar ^a   Koç, Zafer ^b   Koç, Filiz ^a   Gulhal Bozkir M ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Lateral ventricle; Mri; Normal adult; Third ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOLOGIST; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATROPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84555203796     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132811Y.0000000030     Document Type: Article

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