Validation of tractography: Comparison with manganese tracing

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4116-4134

  Knösche, Thomas R ^a   Anwander, Alfred ^a   Liptrot, Matthew ^b,c   Dyrby, Tim B ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Brain connections; Crossing fibers; DTI; MRI; Tracking; White matter

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EX VIVO STUDY; GOTTINGEN MINIPIG; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRACTOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MINIPIG; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MANGANESE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FIBERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE;

EID: 84942279228     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22902     Document Type: Article

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