Diameter, length, speed, and conduction delay of callosal axons in macaque monkeys and humans: Comparing data from histology and magnetic resonance imaging diffusion tractography

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 14501-14511

  Caminiti, Roberto ^a   Carducci, Filippo ^a   Piervincenzi, Claudia ^a,d   Battaglia Mayer, Alexandra ^a   Confalone, Giuseppina ^a   Visco Comandini, Federica ^a   Pantano, Patrizia ^b   Innocenti, Giorgio M ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HAPLORHINI; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SURVIVAL TIME; TRACTOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AXONS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL CONDUCTION;

EID: 84883318400     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0761-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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