Digital reconstruction and morphometric analysis of human brain arterial vasculature from magnetic resonance angiography

NeuroImage

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 170-181

  Wright, Susan N ^a,d   Kochunov, Peter ^b,d   Mut, Fernando ^a   Bergamino, Maurizio ^a,e   Brown, Kerry M ^a   Mazziotta, John C ^c   Toga, Arthur W ^c   Cebral, Juan R ^a   Ascoli, Giorgio A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879713144     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.089     Document Type: Article

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