Gender, age-related, and regional differences of the magnetization transfer ratio of the cortical and subcortical brain gray matter

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 360-366

  Mascalchi, Mario ^a   Toschi, Nicola ^b   Ginestroni, Andrea ^a   Giannelli, Marco ^c   Nicolai, Emanuele ^d   Aiello, Marco ^d   Soricelli, Andrea ^d,e   Diciotti, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^d IRCCS SDN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

aging; automatic segmentation; gray matter; magnetization transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BRAIN GRAY MATTER; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER RATIO; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBCORTICAL BRAIN GRAY MATTER; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84904545092     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24355     Document Type: Article

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