Automated Determination of Axonal Orientation in the Deep White Matter of the Human Brain

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 284-290

  Bartsch, Hauke ^a   Maechler, Paul ^a   Annese, Jacopo ^a  

^a Brain Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

anatomical connectivity; axonal fiber; Fourier transform; human brain connectivity; white matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872851387     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2012.0096     Document Type: Article

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