Design and validation of a novel method to measure cross-sectional area of neck muscles included during routine mr brain volume imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kilgour, Alixe H M ^a   Subedi, Deepak ^a   Gray, Calum D ^b,c   Deary, Ian J ^a   Lawrie, Stephen M ^a,c   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a,c   Starr, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Scottish Imaging Network   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE SIZE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBLIQUUS MUSCLE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMISPINALIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPLENIUS MUSCLE; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; THIGH; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VOLUMETRY; AGED; ANATOMY; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BRAIN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK MUSCLES; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84859258144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034444     Document Type: Article

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