Super-resolution track-density imaging of thalamic substructures: Comparison with high-resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging at 7.0T

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2538-2548

  Calamante, Fernando ^a,b   Oh, Se Hong ^c,d   Tournier, Jacques Donald ^a,b   Park, Sung Yeon ^c   Son, Young Don ^c   Chung, Jun Young ^c,e   Chi, Je Geun ^c   Jackson, Graeme D ^a,b   Park, Chan Woong ^c   Kim, Young Bo ^c   Connelly, Alan ^a,b   Cho, Zang Hee ^c  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Eulji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

7.0T MRI; Diffusion weighted imaging; TDI; Thalamus; Thalamus substructures; Track density imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRACTOGRAPHY;

7.0T MRI; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; TDI; THALAMUS; THALAMUS SUBSTRUCTURES; TRACK-DENSITY IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 84883776627     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22083     Document Type: Article

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