Aging alterations in whole-brain networks during adulthood mapped with the minimum spanning tree indices: The interplay of density, connectivity cost and life-time trajectory

NeuroImage

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 171-189

  Otte, Willem M ^a,b   van Diessen, Eric ^b   Paul, Subhadip ^c   Ramaswamy, Rajiv ^c   Subramanyam Rallabandi, V P ^c   Stam, Cornelis J ^d   Roy, Prasun K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMUM SPANNING TREE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SENESCENCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921516116     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.011     Document Type: Article

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