The connectome visualization utility: Software for visualization of human brain networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  LaPlante, Roan A ^a   Douw, Linda ^a,b   Tang, Wei ^a   Stufflebeam, Steven M ^a,c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN NETWORK; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONNECTOME; DATA PROCESSING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTOME; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84914689052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113838     Document Type: Article

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