The Human Connectome Project's neuroimaging approach

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1175-1187

  Glasser, Matthew F ^a   Smith, Stephen M ^b   Marcus, Daniel S ^a   Andersson, Jesper L R ^b   Auerbach, Edward J ^c   Behrens, Timothy E J ^b   Coalson, Timothy S ^a   Harms, Michael P ^a   Jenkinson, Mark ^b   Moeller, Steen ^c   Robinson, Emma C ^d   Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N ^b   Xu, Junqian ^e   Yacoub, Essa ^c   Ugurbil, Kamil ^c   Van Essen, David C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTIFACT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; DATA ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN CONNECTOME PROJECT; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

BRAIN; CONNECTOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84984682168     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4361     Document Type: Review

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