Diffusion properties of cortical and pericortical tissue: Regional variations, reliability and methodological issues

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1111-1122

  Kang, Xiaojian ^a,b   Herron, Timothy J ^b   Turken, And U ^b   Woods, David L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical primary diffusion direction; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Gender differences; Hemispheric asymmetry; Mean diffusivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL PRIMARY DIFFUSION DIRECTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LOCAL CORTICAL CURVATURE; LOCAL CORTICAL THICKNESS; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERICORTICAL TISSUE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SULCAL DEPTH; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866144261     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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