Replicability of diffusion tensor imaging measurements of fractional anisotropy and trace in brain

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 427-433

  Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,b   Adalsteinsson, Elfar ^b   Sullivan, Edith V ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion imaging; DTI; Longitudinal; Reliability; Replicability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0141841829     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.10377     Document Type: Article

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