"Absolute" or "relative": Choosing the right outcome measure in neuroimaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 258-259

  Gründer, Gerhard ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JARA Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN METABOLISM; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 60149105534     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.10.042     Document Type: Note

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