Effect of Region of Interest on Interobserver Variance in Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Measures

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 108-111

  Bilgili, Yasemin ^a,b   Unal, Birsen ^a  

^a KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PONS; PUTAMEN; RADIOLOGIST; RED NUCLEUS; SEMIOVAL CENTER; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 1642500830     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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