The structural and functional connectivity of the posterior cingulate cortex: Comparison between deterministic and probabilistic tractography for the investigation of structure-function relationships

NeuroImage

Volumn 102, Issue P1, 2014, Pages 118-127

  Khalsa, Sakh ^a,b   Mayhew, Stephen D ^a   Chechlacz, Magdalena ^c   Bagary, Manny ^b   Bagshaw, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Neuropsychiatry   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; DMN; FMRI; Functional connectivity; Precuneus; Structural connectivity; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DETERMINISTIC TRACTOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUP INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MESIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILISTIC TRACTOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEED BASED CORRELATIONAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY; TRACTOGRAPHY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE NET; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908376003     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.022     Document Type: Review

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