Reliability of longitudinal brain volume loss measurements between 2 sites in patients with multiple sclerosis: Comparison of 7 quantification techniques

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1918-1924

  Durand Dubief, Fraņoise ^a,b,c   Belaroussi, B ^d   Armspach, J P ^e   Dufour, M ^a,c   Roggerone, S ^a,c   Vukusic, S ^a,c,f   Hannoun, S ^b,c,g   Sappey Marinier, D ^b,c,g   Confavreux, C ^a,c,f   Cotton, F ^b,c,h  

^a HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d BioClinica Inc   (United States)

^e Institut de Physique Biologique   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^g CERMEP IMAGERIE DU VIVANT   (France)

^h CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN SIZE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATROPHY; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870922464     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3107     Document Type: Article

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