Decline of fiber tract integrity over the adult age range: A diffusion spectrum imaging study

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 348-359

  Teipel, Stefan J ^a,b   Lerche, Maximilian ^a   Kilimann, Ingo ^a,b   O'Brien, Kieran ^c   Grothe, Michel ^b   Meyer, Peter ^a   Li, Xingfeng ^d   Sänger, Peter ^a   Hauenstein, Karlheinz ^a  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aging; diffusion spectrum imaging; generalized fractional anisotropy; genetics; neurodegeneration; white matter microstructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION SPECTRUM IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FIBER TRACT INTEGRITY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENERALIZED FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER ATROPHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TRACTOGRAPHY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904562939     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24420     Document Type: Article

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