Structural MRI connectome in development: Challenges of the changing brain

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 87, Issue 1039, 2014, Pages

  Tymofiyeva, O ^a   Hess, C P ^a   Xu, D ^a   Barkovich, A J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN MATURATION; CENTRAL SULCUS; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MYELINATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN; EMBRYOLOGY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN; CONNECTOME; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84907482397     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: 1748880X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20140086     Document Type: Review

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