Accuracy and reproducibility of brain and tissue volumes using a magnetic resonance segmentation method

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 215-234

  Byrum, Christopher E ^a   MacFall, James R ^a   Charles, H Cecil ^a   Chitilla, Venkata R ^a   Boyko, Orest B ^a   Upchurch, Lucy ^a   Smith, Jean S ^a   Rajagopalan, Pradeep ^b   Passe, Theodore ^b   Kim, Dennis ^b   Xanthakos, Stavra ^b   Ranga, K ^c   Krishnan, R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

seeding; semiautomated; signal intensity; stereologic point counting; volumetric

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0030574075     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0925-4927(96)02790-4     Document Type: Article

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