Reproducibility and Repeatability of Volumetric Measurements for Olfactory Bulb Volumetry: Which Method Is Appropriate? An Update Using 3 Tesla MRI

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 842-849

  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

3 Tesla; Magnetic resonance imaging; Olfactory bulb; Repeatability; Reproducibility; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL BONE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKULL BASE; STEADY STATE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OLFACTORY BULB; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958782273     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.02.018     Document Type: Article

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