The Relationship between Cortical Blood Flow and Sub-Cortical White-Matter Health across the Adult Age Span

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Chen, J Jean ^a,b   Rosas, H Diana ^b   Salat, David H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; SPIN LABELING; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874318427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056733     Document Type: Article

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