Interexaminer difference in infarct volume measurements on MRI: A source of variance in stroke research

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1171-1176

  Ay, Hakan ^a   Arsava, E Murat ^a   Vangel, Mark ^a   Oner, Banu ^a   Zhu, Mingwang ^a   Wu, Ona ^a   Singhal, Aneesh ^a   Koroshetz, Walter J ^b   Sorensen, A Gregory ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Diffusion weighted imaging; MRI; Neuroradiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROIMAGING; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURORADIOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 41149121207     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.502104     Document Type: Article

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