Myelin and iron concentration in the human brain: A quantitative study of MRI contrast

NeuroImage

Volumn 93, Issue P1, 2014, Pages 95-106

  Stüber, Carsten ^a   Morawski, Markus ^b,c   Schäfer, Andreas ^a   Labadie, Christian ^a,d   Wähnert, Miriam ^a   Leuze, Christoph ^a   Streicher, Markus ^a   Barapatre, Nirav ^b   Reimann, Katja ^a   Geyer, Stefan ^a   Spemann, Daniel ^b   Turner, Robert ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Magnetic susceptibility; Phosphorus; PIXE; Simulations

Indexed keywords

IRON; MYELIN; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHORUS; SULFUR; MYELIN PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; CALIBRATION; CONTRAST; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EX VIVO STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; IRON BRAIN LEVEL; MALE; MYELIN BRAIN LEVEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTICLE INDUCED X RAY EMISSION; PHASE SEPARATION; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN PROTEINS;

EID: 84897051820     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.02.026     Document Type: Article

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