Changes in white matter microstructure in the developing brain-A longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging study of children from 4 to 11years of age

NeuroImage

Volumn 124, Issue , 2016, Pages 473-486

  Krogsrud, Stine K ^a   Fjell, Anders M ^a,b   Tamnes, Christian K ^a   Grydeland, Håkon ^a   Mork, Lia ^a   Due Tønnessen, Paulina ^a,c   Bjørnerud, Atle ^a,c   Sampaio Baptista, Cassandra ^d   Andersson, Jesper ^d   Johansen Berg, Heidi ^d   Walhovd, Kristine B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Development; DTI; Longitudinal; MRI; White matter maturation

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84944397401     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.017     Document Type: Article

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