Measuring macroscopic brain connections in vivo

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1546-1555

  Jbabdi, Saad ^a   Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N ^a   Haber, Suzanne N ^b   Van Essen, David C ^c   Behrens, Timothy E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONNECTOME; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMY;

EID: 84945425254     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4134     Document Type: Review

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