White Matter Anatomy. What the Radiologist Needs to Know

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 197-216

  Wycoco, Victor ^a   Shroff, Manohar ^a   Sudhakar, Sniya ^b   Lee, Wayne ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Association Fibers; Commissural fibers; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Projection fibers; White matter tracts

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; BRAIN CINGULUM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CAPSULA INTERNA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORTICOBULBAR TRACT; CORTICOPONTINE TRACT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENICULOCALCARINE TRACT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; INFERIOR OCCIPITOFRONTAL FASCICULUS; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; NEUROANATOMY; NEURORADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; SUPERIOR OCCIPITOFRONTAL FASCICULUS; THALAMUS; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REFERENCE VALUES; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876715969     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: 15579867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2012.12.002     Document Type: Review

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