Why diffusion tensor MRI does well only some of the time: Variance and covariance of white matter tissue microstructure attributes in the living human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 35-44

  De Santis, Silvia ^a,b   Drakesmith, Mark ^a,b   Bells, Sonya ^a,b   Assaf, Yaniv ^c   Jones, Derek K ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

CHARMED; Diffusion tensor MRI; Myelin; White matter microstructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN TISSUE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VARIANCE; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; NEUROANATOMY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; TRACTOGRAPHY;

CHARMED; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; MYELIN; WHITE MATTER MICROSTRUCTURE;

ADULT; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892840427     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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