Disentangling in vivo the effects of iron content and atrophy on the ageing human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 280-289

  Lorio, S ^a   Lutti, A ^a   Kherif, F ^a   Ruef, A ^a   Dukart, J ^a   Chowdhury, R ^c   Frackowiak, R S ^a   Ashburner, J ^c   Helms, G ^b   Weiskopf, N ^c   Draganski, B ^a,d  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Magnetization transfer; Quantitative magnetic imaging; R1; Voxel based morphometry; Voxel based quantification

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908568325     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.09.044     Document Type: Article

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