Quantitative and qualitative assessment of structural magnetic resonance imaging data in a two-center study

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chalavi, Sima ^a,b   Simmons, Andrew ^b,c   Dijkstra, Hildebrand ^a   Barker, Gareth J ^b   Reinders, AAT Simone ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical thickness; Freesurfer; Multi center; Relative mean difference; Reproducibility; SPM; Structural MRI; Subcortical volumes; Test retest; Variability; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864507853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-12-27     Document Type: Article

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