Visual Grading Characteristics (VGC) Analysis of Diagnostic Image Quality for High Resolution 3 Tesla MRI Volumetry of the Olfactory Bulb

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 634-639

  Burmeister, Hartmut Peter ^a   Baltzer, Pascal Andreas Thomas ^a   Möslein, Constanze ^a   Bitter, Thomas ^a   Gudziol, Hilmar ^a   Dietzel, Matthias ^a   Guntinas Lichius, Orlando ^a   Kaiser, Werner Alois ^a,b  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Olfactory bulb; Visual grading characteristics analysis; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANK SUM TEST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL GRADING CHARACTERISTIC; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OLFACTORY BULB; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79953319394     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.12.011     Document Type: Article

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