Regional changes in thalamic shape and volume with increasing age

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1134-1142

  Hughes, Emer J ^b   Bond, Jacqueline ^b   Svrckova, Patricia ^b   Makropoulos, Antonis ^a   Ball, Gareth ^a   Sharp, David J ^c   Edwards, A David ^a   Hajnal, Joeseph V ^a   Counsell, Serena J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Healthy aging; Thalamo cortical connectivity; Thalamus; Vertex analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROOP TEST; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866085625     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.07.043     Document Type: Article

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