High-resolution MR imaging of the human brainstem in vivo at 7 Tesla

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Deistung, Andreas ^a   Schäfer, Andreas ^b   Schweser, Ferdin ^a   Biedermann, Uta ^c   Güllmar, Daniel ^a   Trampel, Robert ^b   Turner, Robert ^b   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Brain; Brainstem; Diffusion tensor imaging; Effective transverse relaxation; Longitudinal relaxation; Quantitative susceptibility mapping; Track density imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PONS; RETICULOTEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 84887976466     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00710     Document Type: Article

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