A population-specific symmetric phase model to automatically analyze susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) phase shifts and phase symmetry in the human brain

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 215-220

  Grabner, Günther ^a,b   Haubenberger, Dietrich ^a,c   Rath, Jakob ^a   Beisteiner, Roland ^a   Auff, Eduard ^a   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a   Barth, Markus ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

Brain nuclei; Iron content; Parkinson disease; Segmentation; Susceptibility weighted imaging; Symmetric phase model

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RED NUCLEUS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PUTAMEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 74049149737     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22013     Document Type: Article

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