Age-specific MRI brain and head templates for healthy adults from 20 through 89 years of age

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Fillmore, Paul T ^a   Phillips Meek, Michelle C ^a,b   Richards, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Limestone College   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Aging; MRI; Segmentation; Templates

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926286415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00044     Document Type: Article

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