Reproducibility of Sonographic Measurement of the Substantia Nigra

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1347-1352

  Školoudík, David ^a,b   Fadrná, Táňa ^b   Bártová, Petra ^b   Langová, Kateřina ^a   Ressner, Pavel ^a   Zapletalová, Olga ^b   Hluštík, Petr ^a   Herzig, Roman ^a   Kaňnovský, Petr ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Parkinson's disease; Reproducibility; Substantia nigra; Transcranial sonography

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DISEASES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING;

PARKINSON'S DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TRANSCRANIAL SONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 34548124644     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.03.013     Document Type: Article

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