Comparison of diffusion tractography and tract-tracing measures of connectivity strength in rhesus macaque connectome

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3064-3075

  van den Heuvel, Martijn P ^a   de Reus, Marcel A ^a   Feldman Barrett, Lisa ^b,c   Scholtens, Lianne H ^a   Coopmans, Fraukje M T ^a   Schmidt, Ruben ^a   Preuss, Todd M ^d   Rilling, James K ^d,e   Li, Longchuan ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

connectivity; connectome; connectomics; diffusion imaging; macaque; tract tracing; white matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVITY DENSITY; CONNECTIVITY STRENGTH; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TRACTOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; STRENGTH; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BOOK; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FACTUAL DATABASE; MALE; NERVE TRACT; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84930696342     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22828     Document Type: Article

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