Measuring brain volume by MR imaging: Impact of measurement precision and natural variation on sample size requirements

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1119-1125

  Steen, R Grant ^a   Hamer, R M ^a,b   Lieberman, J A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; SAMPLE SIZE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34250793858     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0537     Document Type: Article

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