Group-averaged anatomical connectivity mapping for improved human white matter pathway visualisation

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1224-1233

  Cercignani, Mara ^a,b   Embleton, Karl ^c   Parker, Geoffrey J M ^c   Bozzali, Marco ^b  

^a BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor MRI; Neuroanatomy; Q ball; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC OPERATIONS; DATA SETS; DIFFUSION DIRECTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; HUMAN BRAIN; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS; NEUROANATOMY; PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS; PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; Q-BALL; STREAMLINE DIFFUSION; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ALGEBRA; DIFFUSION; TENSORS;

BRAIN MAPPING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL CONNECTIVITY MAPPING; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q BALL TECHNIQUE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868159750     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2793     Document Type: Article

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