A robust method for investigating thalamic white matter tracts after traumatic brain injury

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 779-788

  Squarcina, Letizia ^a   Bertoldo, Alessandra ^a   Ham, Timothy E ^b   Heckemann, Rolf ^b,c   Sharp, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CERMEP IMAGERIE DU VIVANT   (France)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Thalamus; Tractography; Traumatic axonal injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID MASK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILISTIC TRACTOGRAPHY; THALAMUS; TRACT SKELETON; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC AXONAL INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865503126     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.07.016     Document Type: Article

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