The Human Connectome Project and beyond: Initial applications of 300mT/m gradients

NeuroImage

Volumn 80, Issue , 2013, Pages 234-245

  McNab, Jennifer A ^a   Edlow, Brian L ^b   Witzel, Thomas ^b   Huang, Susie Y ^b   Bhat, Himanshu ^c   Heberlein, Keith ^c   Feiweier, Thorsten ^d   Liu, Kecheng ^c   Keil, Boris ^b   Cohen Adad, Julien ^e   Tisdall, M Dylan ^b   Folkerth, Rebecca D ^f,g   Kinney, Hannah C ^g   Wald, Lawrence L ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon diameter; Consciousness; Corpus callosum; Diffusion MRI; Human connectome; In vivo; Postmortem; Tractography; Traumatic coma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; COMA; CONNECTOME; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TRACTOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRACTOGRAPHY;

AXON DIAMETER; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MRI; HUMAN CONNECTOME; IN VIVO; POSTMORTEM; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC COMA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PILOT PROJECTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880332248     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.074     Document Type: Article

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