Tract specific reproducibility of tractography based morphology and diffusion metrics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Besseling, René M H ^a,b   Jansen, Jacobus F A ^a   Overvliet, Geke M ^a,b   Vaessen, Maarten J ^a,b   Braakman, Hilde M H ^a,b   Hofman, Paul A M ^a,b   Aldenkamp, Albert P ^a,b   Backes, Walter H ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EPILEPSY CENTER KEMPENHAEGHE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METRIC SYSTEM; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN STEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HISTOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE TRACT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN STEM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859260562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034125     Document Type: Article

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