Statistical evaluations of the reproducibility and reliability of 3-Tesla high resolution magnetization transfer brain images: A pilot study on healthy subjects

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zou, Kelly H ^a   Du, Hongyan ^b   Sidharthan, Shawn ^b   Detora, Lisa M ^c   Chen, Yunmei ^d   Ragin, ^e   Edelman, Robert R ^b,f   Wu, Ying ^b,f  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN IMAGES; BRAIN REGIONS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EARLY DETECTION; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHER RESOLUTION; IMAGING MODALITY; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; MODEL SPECIFICATIONS; PILOT STUDIES; REGRESSION MODEL; REPEATED MEASURES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; RIGHT HEMISPHERES; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; WHITE MATTER;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

BRAIN;

EID: 84855177737     PISSN: 16874188     EISSN: 16874196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/618747     Document Type: Article

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