Healthy Aging. An Automatic Analysis of Global and Regional Morphological Alterations of Human Brain

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 785-793

  Long, Xiaojing ^a   Liao, Weiqi ^a   Jiang, Chunxiang ^a   Liang, Dong ^a   Qiu, Bensheng ^a   Zhang, Lijuan ^a  

^a University Town of Shenzhen   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Cortex; Magnetic resonance imaging; Morphology; Subcortical nuclei

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN MORPHOLOGY; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CALCULATION; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSULA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; THALAMUS; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBRUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862506498     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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