Reproducibility of brain ADC histograms

European Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 425-430

  Steens, Stefan C A ^a   Admiraal Behloul, Faiza ^a   Schaap, Jorrit A ^a   Hoogenraad, Frank G C ^b   Wheeler Kingshott, Claudia A M ^c   le Cessie, Saskia ^a   Tofts, Paul S ^c   van Buchem, Mark A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffusion MR imaging; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 1542315632     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-003-2121-3     Document Type: Article

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