White matter integrity, fiber count, and other fallacies: The do's and don'ts of diffusion MRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 73, Issue , 2013, Pages 239-254

  Jones, Derek K ^a,b   Knösche, Thomas R ^c   Turner, Robert ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NOTE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COUNT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84875234773     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.081     Document Type: Note

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