Comparative reliability of total intracranial volume estimation methods and the influence of atrophy in a longitudinal semantic dementia cohort

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-46

  Pengas, George ^a   Pereira, João M S ^b   Williams, Guy B ^b   Nestor, Peter J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Dementia; FreeSurfer; MRI; SPM; Total intracranial volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 58149337362     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2008.00246.x     Document Type: Article

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