Effect of scanner in longitudinal studies of brain volume changes

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 438-444

  Takao, Hidemasa ^a   Hayashi, Naoto ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

bias; brain volume; drift; reliability; reproducibility; variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79960603493     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22636     Document Type: Article

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