Fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity parameters of the brain white matter tracts in preterm infants: Reproducibility of region-of-interest measurements

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 175-182

  Lepomäki, Virva K ^a   Paavilainen, Teemu P ^a   Hurme, Saija A M ^b   Komu, Markku E ^a   Parkkola, Riitta K ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Preterm infant; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CALCARINE SULCUS; CAPSULA INTERNA; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REGION OF INTEREST; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; NEWBORN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84862309064     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-011-2234-9     Document Type: Article

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