Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging of the healthy cervical spinal cord in vivo

NeuroImage

Volumn 111, Issue , 2015, Pages 590-601

  Grussu, Francesco ^a   Schneider, Torben ^a   Zhang, Hui ^b   Alexander, Daniel C ^b   Wheeler Kingshott, Claudia A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; NEURITE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; CERVICAL CORD; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; NEURITES;

EID: 84932603355     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.045     Document Type: Article

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