Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 8 , Pages 1200-1209 , October 2010

Functional connectivity in the rat brain: a complex network approach

  • Angelo Bifone

      Affiliations

    • Italian Institute of Technology, Center for Nanotechnology Innovation, IIT@NEST, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Alessandro Gozzi

      Affiliations

    • Italian Institute of Technology, Center for Nanotechnology Innovation, IIT@NEST, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa, Italy
    • ,
  • Adam J. Schwarz

      Affiliations

    • Translational Imaging, Exploratory and Program Medicine, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN 46285, USA

Received 6 November 2009 ,Revised 30 June 2010 ,Accepted 13 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.07.001

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 8 , Pages 1200-1209 , October 2010

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