A Diffusion MRI tractography connectome of the mouse brain and comparison with neuronal tracer data

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4628-4637

  Calabrese, Evan ^a   Badea, Alexandra ^a   Cofer, Gary ^a   Qi, Yi ^a   Johnson, G Allan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectome; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mouse; Neuroanatomy; Tractography

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL TRACT TRACER; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84937121873     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv121     Document Type: Article

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