Mapping White Matter Microstructure in the One Month Human Brain

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Dean, D C ^a,b   Planalp, E M ^a,b   Wooten, W ^b   Adluru, N ^a   Kecskemeti, S R ^a   Frye, C ^b   Schmidt, C K ^a,b   Schmidt, N L ^a,b   Styner, M A ^c,d   Goldsmith, H H ^a,b   Davidson, R J ^a,b,e   Alexander, A L ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURITE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SLEEP; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; ORGANOGENESIS;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ORGANOGENESIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 85028546497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09915-6     Document Type: Article

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