Age- and Sex-Related Variations in the Brain White Matter Fractal Dimension Throughout Adulthood: An MRI Study

Clinical Neuroradiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 19-32

  Farahibozorg, S ^a   Hashemi Golpayegani, S M ^a   Ashburner, J ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging brain; Brain MRI; Complexity; Fractal dimension; Sex difference; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84891822371     PISSN: 18691439     EISSN: 18691447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00062-013-0273-3     Document Type: Article

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