A gradual increase of iron toward the medial-inferior tip of the subthalamic nucleus

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 4440-4449

  de Hollander, Gilles ^a   Keuken, Max C ^a,b   Bazin, Pierre Louis ^b   Weiss, Marcel ^b   Neumann, Jane ^b,c   Reimann, Katja ^b   Wähnert, Miriam ^b   Turner, Robert ^b   Forstmann, Birte U ^a   Schäfer, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

7T MRI; Iron gradients; Quantitative susceptibility mapping; Subthalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ADULT; AGED; DEVICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904500553     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22485     Document Type: Article

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