Reproducibility of diffusion tensor imaging in human forearm muscles at 3.0 T in a clinical setting

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1182-1190

  Froeling, Martijn ^a,b   Oudeman, Jos ^b   Van Den Berg, Sandra ^b   Nicolay, Klaas ^a   Maas, Mario ^b   Strijkers, Gustav J ^a   Drost, Maarten R ^c   Nederveen, Aart J ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical protocol; DTI; Human forearm; Reproducibility; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE; TENSORS;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN FOREARMS; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; REGIONS OF INTEREST; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENSOR EIGENVALUES;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 77957312485     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22477     Document Type: Article

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