Mapping an index of the myelin g-ratio in infants using magnetic resonance imaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 132, Issue , 2016, Pages 225-237

  Dean, Douglas C ^a   O'Muircheartaigh, Jonathan ^b   Dirks, Holly ^d   Travers, Brittany G ^a,c   Adluru, Nagesh ^a   Alexander, Andrew L ^a,e   Deoni, Sean C L ^d,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d Brown University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL COLORADO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FIBER VOLUME FRACTION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFANT; MALE; MULTICOMPONENT RELAXOMETRY; MYELIN G RATIO; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELIN WATER VOLUME FRACTION; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TODDLER; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYELIN SHEATH; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84960118953     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.040     Document Type: Article

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