Magnetic resonance imaging of the newborn brain: Manual segmentation of labelled atlases in term-born and preterm infants

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1499-1509

  Gousias, Ioannis S ^a,b   Edwards, A David ^a   Rutherford, Mary A ^a   Counsell, Serena J ^a   Hajnal, Jo V ^a   Rueckert, Daniel ^b   Hammers, Alexander ^a,c  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CERMEP IMAGERIE DU VIVANT   (France)

Author keywords

ALBERT; Anatomy; Brain mapping; Cross sectional; Delineation protocol; Image processing; Neonatal brain atlas; Neuroanatomy

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84863485804     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.083     Document Type: Article

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