Magnetic resonance field strength effects on diffusion measures and brain connectivity networks

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-86

  Zhan, Liang ^a   Mueller, Bryon A ^b   Jahanshad, Neda ^a   Jin, Yan ^a   Lenglet, Christophe ^c   Yacoub, Essa ^c   Sapiro, Guillermo ^d   Ugurbil, Kamil ^c   Harel, Noam ^c   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Lim, Kelvin O ^b   Thompson, Paul M ^a,e  

^a Laboratory of Neuro Imaging   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d USA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

brain network analysis; DTI; fractional anisotropy; graph theory; high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI); high field MRI; signal to noise ratio; tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONNECTIVITY; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIFFUSION IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRACTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84988335981     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2012.0114     Document Type: Article

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