Reliability of quantifying vascular white matter brain lesions - A contribution to reproducible quantitative diagnosis;Reliabilität der quantifizierung von vaskulären läsionen der weißen hirnsubstanz - Ein beitrag zur replizierbaren quantitativen diagnostik

RoFo Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Rontgenstrahlen und der Bildgebenden Verfahren

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 105-113

  Hentschel, F ^a   Kreis, M ^a   Damian, M ^a   Diepers, M ^b   Disque C ^c   Dzialowski, I ^c   Kitzler, H ^c   Rodewald, A ^c   Struffert, T ^d   Trittmacher, S ^e   Wille, P R ^f   Krumm, B ^a  

^a MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Abteilung Neuroradiologie   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^d Abt Neuroradiologie   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dementia; Diagnostics; Rating scales; Reliability; White matter lesion (WML)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; MICROANGIOPATHY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL ANATOMY; VASCULAR SUBCORTICAL DEMENTIA; VASCULAR WHITE MATTER BRAIN LESION;

AGED; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19944431478     PISSN: 14389029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-813858     Document Type: Article

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