Quantifying the local tissue volume and composition in individual brains with magnetic resonance imaging

Nature Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1667-1672

  Mezer, Aviv ^a   Yeatman, Jason D ^a   Stikov, Nikola ^b   Kay, Kendrick N ^a   Cho, Nam Joon ^c,d   Dougherty, Robert F ^a   Perry, Michael L ^a   Parvizi, Josef ^a   Hua, Le H ^a   Butts Pauly, Kim ^a   Wandell, Brian A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; MYELIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROMOLECULAR TISSUE VOLUME; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84889879697     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3390     Document Type: Article

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