Increased Global and Local Efficiency of Human Brain Anatomical Networks Detected with FLAIR-DTI Compared to Non-FLAIR-DTI

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Li, Shumei ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Xu, Pengfei ^b   Lin, Qixiang ^b   Gong, Gaolang ^b   Peng, Xiaoling ^a   Fan, Yuanyuan ^a   He, Yong ^b   Huang, Ruiwang ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANATOMICAL NETWORK; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NON FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL GYRUS; TRACTOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881493990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071229     Document Type: Article

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