On the relationship between cellular and hemodynamic properties of the human brain cortex throughout adult lifespan

NeuroImage

Volumn 133, Issue , 2016, Pages 417-429

  Zhao, Yue ^a   Wen, Jie ^b   Cross, Anne H ^c   Yablonskiy, Dmitriy A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; BOLD; Cellular structure; GEPCI; Hemodynamic properties; MRI

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEOXYGENATED CEREBRAL BLOOD VOLUME; GRADIENT RECALLED ECHO; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIFESPAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RELATIVE OXYGEN EXTRACTION FRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE CONCENTRATION OF DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84962385176     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.03.022     Document Type: Article

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