A stereotaxic, population-averaged T1w ovine brain atlas including cerebral morphology and tissue volumes

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 9, Issue June, 2015, Pages

  Nitzsche, Björn ^a,b   Frey, Stephen ^c   Collins, Louis D ^c   Seeger, Johannes ^b   Lobsien, Donald ^d   Dreyer, Antje ^a,b   Kirsten, Holger ^a,b   Stoffel, Michael H ^e   Fonov, Vladimir S ^c   Boltze, Johannes ^a,b,f  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas; Brain; Sheep; SPM; Stereotaxy; Structural MRI; Tissue segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL GRAY MATTER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FIRST CERVICAL VERTEBRA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COORDINATE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84935859396     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00069     Document Type: Article

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