Between session reproducibility and between subject variability of diffusion MR and tractography measures

NeuroImage

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 867-877

  Heiervang, E ^a,b   Behrens, T E J ^a   Mackay, C E ^a   Robson, M D ^a   Johansen Berg, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CALCULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TRACTOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 33750074752     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.07.037     Document Type: Article

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