Validation of in utero tractography of human fetal commissural and internal capsule fibers with histological structure tensor analysis

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 9, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Mitter, Christian ^a,b   Jakab, András ^a   Brugger, Peter C ^c   Ricken, Gerda ^b   Gruber, Gerlinde M ^c   Bettelheim, Dieter ^d   Scharrer, Anke ^a   Langs, Georg ^a   Hainfellner, Johannes A ^b   Prayer, Daniela ^a   Kasprian, Gregor ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^d UNIV KLIN FÜR FRAUENHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fetal MRI; Histology; Human fetal brain; Structure tensor; Tractography; Validation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FETAL BRAIN; FETUS; FIBER; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNAL CAPSULE FIBER; INTERNEURON; NEUROPATHOLOGY; TRACTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84957865817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00164     Document Type: Article

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