Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 164, Issue 2 , Pages 132-142 , 30 November 2008

Diffusion tensor imaging tractography and reliability analysis for limbic and paralimbic white matter tracts

  • Nikolai Malykhin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, 1E7.16 WMC, 8440-112 Street, Edmonton AB, Canada T6G 2B7. Tel.: +1 780 492 6016; fax: +1 780 470 6672.
    • ,
  • Luis Concha

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    • ,
  • Peter Seres

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    • ,
  • Christian Beaulieu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    • ,
  • Nicholas J. Coupland

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Received 22 June 2007 ,Revised 24 September 2007 ,Accepted 19 November 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.11.007

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 164, Issue 2 , Pages 132-142 , 30 November 2008

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