Automated probabilistic reconstruction of white-matter pathways in health and disease using an atlas of the underlying anatomy

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yendiki, Anastasia ^a   Panneck, Patricia ^b   Srinivasan, Priti ^a   Stevens, Allison ^a   Zöllei, Lilla ^a   Augustinack, Jean ^a   Wang, Ruopeng ^a   Salat, David ^a   Ehrlich, Stefan ^a,c   Behrens, Tim ^d   Jbabdi, Saad ^d   Gollub, Randy ^a   Fischl, Bruce ^a,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion MRI; Tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84994044903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00023     Document Type: Article

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