Optimization of large-scale mouse brain connectome via joint evaluation of DTI and neuron tracing data

NeuroImage

Volumn 115, Issue , 2015, Pages 202-213

  Chen, Hanbo ^a   Liu, Tao ^a,b   Zhao, Yu ^a   Zhang, Tuo ^a,c   Li, Yujie ^a   Li, Meng ^d   Zhang, Hongmiao ^d   Kuang, Hui ^d   Guo, Lei ^c   Tsien, Joe Z ^d   Liu, Tianming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b HEBEI UNITED UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BOOK; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84929333670     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.050     Document Type: Article

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