A multicenter measurement of magnetization transfer ratio in normal white matter

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 441-446

  Berry, Isabelle ^a   Barker, Gareth J ^b   Barkhof, Frederik ⁱ   Campi, Adriana ^c   Dousset, Vincent ^d   Franconi, Jean Michel ^e   Gass, Achim ^f   Schreiber, Wolfgang ^g   Miller, David H ^b   Tofts, Paul S ^b,h  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NONE

Author keywords

Brain MRI; Drug trial; Magnetization transfer MRI; Multicenter; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032958551     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(199903)9:3<441::AID-JMRI12>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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