Maturational and aging effects on human brain apparent transverse relaxation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Jianli ^a   Shaffer, Michele L ^a   Eslinger, Paul J ^a   Sun, Xiaoyu ^a   Weitekamp, Christopher W ^a   Patel, Megha M ^a   Dossick, Deborah ^a   Gill, David J ^a   Connor, James R ^a   Yang, Qing X ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAIN TRANSVERSE RELAXATION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RED NUCLEUS; REFERENCE VALUE; RELAXATION TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL MATURATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857415351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031907     Document Type: Article

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