Frontal terminations for the inferior fronto-occipital fascicle: Anatomical dissection, DTI study and functional considerations on a multi-component bundle

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-37

  Sarubbo, Silvio ^a   De Benedictis, Alessandro ^b   Maldonado, Igor L ^c   Basso, Gianpaolo ^d   Duffau, Hugues ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^e MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Anatomic dissection; Hodotopy; Inferior fronto occipital fascicle; Klingler's technique; Semantic system; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR FRONTO OCCIPITAL FASCICLE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION;

BEHAVIOR; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISSECTION; EMOTIONS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84872334978     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-011-0372-3     Document Type: Article

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