Reproducibility and biases in high field brain diffusion MRI: An evaluation of acquisition and analysis variables

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 827-839

  Papinutto, Nico Dario ^a,b   Maule, Francesca ^a   Jovicich, Jorge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biases; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; High field MRI; Mean diffusivity; Principal eigenvalues; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATA PROCESSING; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878663242     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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