Automated measurement of local white matter lesion volume

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3901-3908

  Van der Lijn, Fedde ^a   Verhaaren, Benjamin F J ^a   Ikram, M Arfan ^a   Klein, Stefan ^a   De Bruijne, Marleen ^a,b   Vrooman, Henri A ^a   Vernooij, Meike W ^a   Hammers, Alexander ^c,d   Rueckert, Daniel ^d   Van der Lugt, Aad ^a   Breteler, Monique M B ^a,e   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,f  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c The Neurodis Foundation Fondation Neurodis   (France)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disorders; Location; MRI; Periventricular; Subcortical; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION; PERIVENTRICULAR WHITE MATTER LESION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCORTICAL WHITE MATTER LESION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMATION; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84855820368     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.021     Document Type: Article

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