The anatomical characteristics of superior longitudinal fasciculus I in human brain: Diffusion tensor tractography study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 506, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 146-148

  Jang, Sung Ho ^a   Hong, Ji Heon ^b  

^a Yeungnam University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yeungnam College of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Premotor area; Superior longitudinal fasciculus; Superior parietal lobule; Supplementary motor area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS I; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855196050     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.10.069     Document Type: Article

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