Test-retest reliability of structural brain networks from diffusion MRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 231-243

  Buchanan, Colin R ^a   Pernet, Cyril R ^a,b   Gorgolewski, Krzysztof J ^c   Storkey, Amos J ^a   Bastin, Mark E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Connectome; Diffusion MRI; Human brain; Network; Test retest; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTOME; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION MRI; HUMAN BRAIN; NETWORK; TEST-RETEST; TRACTOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE NET; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84891555425     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.054     Document Type: Article

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