Functional anatomy of subcortical circuits issuing from or integrating at the human brainstem

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-12

  Prats Galino, Alberto ^a   Soria, Guadalupe ^b,c   Notaris, Matteo de ^a,d   Puig, Josep ^e   Pedraza, Salvador ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^c INST D INVESTIGACIONS B   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e HOSPITAL JOSEP TRUETA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

7T; Diffusion tensor imaging; High resolution MRI; Neuroanatomy; Tractography; Virtual atlas

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NUCLEUS; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CRANIAL NERVE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SUBCORTEX; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

BRAIN STEM; CRANIAL NERVES; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84655170084     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.06.035     Document Type: Review

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