Automated voxel-wise brain DTI analysis of fitness and aging

Open Medical Imaging Journal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 80-88

  Liu, Zhexing ^a   Farzinfar, Mahshid ^a   Katz, Laurence M ^a   Zhu, Hongtu ^b   Goodlett, Casey B ^c   Gerig, Guido ^c   Styner, Martin ^b   Marks, Bonita L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina   (United States)

^c University of Utah   (United States)

^d The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging and aerobic fitness; Diffusion tensor imaging; DTI atlas; Nonlinear warping; Voxel wise analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ATLAS; AUTOANALYSIS; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FITNESS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84862180357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18743471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874347101206010080     Document Type: Article

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