Structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging of the human cerebellar nuclei

Cerebellum

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 314-324

  Küper, Michael ^a,b   Thürling, Markus ^a,b   Maderwald, Stefan ^a,b   Ladd, Mark E ^a,b   Timmann, Dagmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlas; Cerebellum; Dentate; Iron; Motor; Non motor

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ACCURACY; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN LEVEL; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEEP CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; DENTATE GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IRON BRAIN LEVEL; MENTAL TASK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRUCTURAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SENSATION;

EID: 84864647755     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-010-0194-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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