Analysis of brain and cerebrospinal fluid volumes with MR imaging: Part I. Methods, reliability, and validation

Radiology

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 115-122

  Kohn, Mark I ^a   Tanna, Nitin K ^a   Herman, Gabor T ^a   Resnick, Susan M ^a   Mozley, P David ^a   Gur, Raquel E ^a   Alavi, Abass ^a   Zimmerman, Robert A ^a   Gur, Ruben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain, MR studies, 10.1214; Cerebrospinal fluid, MR studies, 10.1214; Magnetic resonance (MR), image processing; Phantoms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025970525     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.178.1.1984289     Document Type: Article

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