Reliability of brain volumes from multicenter MRI acquisition: A calibration study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 312-320

  Schnack, Hugo G ^a,g   Van Haren, Neeltje E M ^a   Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^a   Picchioni, Marco ^b   Weisbrod, Matthias ^c   Sauer, Heinrich ^d   Cannon, Tyrone ^e   Huttunen, Matti ^f   Murray, Robin ^b   Kahn, René S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain; Calibration; MRI; Multicenter; Reliability; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 3843145299     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20040     Document Type: Article

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