Using diffusion tractography to predict cortical connection strength and distance: A quantitative comparison with tracers in the monkey

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 25, 2016, Pages 6758-6770

  Donahue, Chad J ^a   Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N ^b   Jbabdi, Saad ^b   Hernandez Fernandez, Moises ^b   Behrens, Timothy E ^b   Dyrby, Tim B ^c,d   Coalson, Timothy ^a   Kennedy, Henry ^e   Knoblauch, Kenneth ^e   Van Essen, David C ^a   Glasser, Matthew F ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e STEM CELL AND BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Connectivity; Diffusion tractography; Macaque; Neuroanatomy; Retrograde tracing

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHLOROCEBUS SABAEUS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HAPLORHINI; HISTOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRACTOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CONNECTOME; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE NET;

EID: 84975293563     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0493-16.2016     Document Type: Article

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