Local Diffusion Homogeneity (LDH): An Inter-Voxel Diffusion MRI Metric for Assessing Inter-Subject White Matter Variability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Gong, Gaolang ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOCAL DIFFUSION HOMOGENEITY; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPLENIUM; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878856847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066366     Document Type: Article

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