Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 3 , Pages 217-222 , 30 December 2009

Extraction of prefronto-amygdalar pathways by combining probability maps

  • Tobias Bracht

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Section of Experimental Neuropsychiatry, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Oliver Tüscher

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Section of Experimental Neuropsychiatry, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Susanne Schnell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology Medical Physics, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Björn Kreher

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology Medical Physics, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Nicolas Rüsch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Section of Experimental Neuropsychiatry, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Volkmar Glauche

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology Medical Physics, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Klaus Lieb

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
    • ,
  • Dieter Ebert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Section of Experimental Neuropsychiatry, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Kamil A. Il'yasov

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Physics, Kazan State University, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
    • ,
  • Jürgen Hennig

      Affiliations

    • Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Section of Experimental Neuropsychiatry, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Cornelius Weiller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Ludger Tebartz van Elst

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Section of Experimental Neuropsychiatry, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Section for Experimental Neuropsychiatry, University Medical Centre Freiburg, Hauptstraße 5, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany. Tel.: +49 761 270 6501; fax: +49 761 270 6619.
    • These authors contributed equally.
    • ,
  • Dorothee Saur

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
    • These authors contributed equally.

Received 15 September 2008 ,Revised 29 April 2009 ,Accepted 4 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.05.001

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 3 , Pages 217-222 , 30 December 2009

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