Detection of Cortical Lesions is Dependent on Choice of Slice Thickness in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

International Review of Neurobiology

Volumn 79, Issue , 2007, Pages 475-489

  Dolezal, Ondrej ^a,b   Dwyer, Michael G ^a   Horakova, Dana ^b   Havrdova, Eva ^b   Minagar, Alireza ^c   Balachandran, Srivats ^a   Bergsland, Niels ^a   Seidl, Zdenek ^b   Vaneckova, Manuela ^b   Fritz, David ^a   Krasensky, Jan ^b   Zivadinov, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; STANDARD;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 34248637890     PISSN: 00747742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7742(07)79021-9     Document Type: Review

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