Quantifying anisotropy and fiber orientation in human brain histological sections

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Budde, Matthew D ^a   Annese, Jacopo ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Brain Observatory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Crossing fibers; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fiber orientation; Histology; Structure tensor

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSSING FIBER; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBER ORIENTATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAVOXEL FIBER DISPERSION; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRIATE CORTEX; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE TENSOR ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84872864782     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2013.00003     Document Type: Article

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