Repeatability and variation of region-of-interest methods using quantitative diffusion tensor MR imaging of the brain

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hakulinen, Ullamari ^a,b   Brander, Antti ^a   Ryymin, Pertti ^a   Öhman, Juha ^c   Soimakallio, Seppo ^a,b   Helminen, Mika ^a   Dastidar, Prasun ^a,b   Eskola, Hannu ^a,b  

^a PIRKANMAA HOSPITAL DISTRICT   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84867236485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-12-30     Document Type: Article

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