Feasibility of creating a high-resolution 3D diffusion tensor imaging based atlas of the human brainstem: A case study at 11.7T

NeuroImage

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 117-127

  Aggarwal, Manisha ^a   Zhang, Jiangyang ^a   Pletnikova, Olga ^a   Crain, Barbara ^a   Troncoso, Juan ^a   Mori, Susumu ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas; Diffusion tensor imaging; Human brainstem; Stereotaxic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CRANIAL NERVE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFERIOR OLIVE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN STEM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84874983304     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.01.061     Document Type: Article

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