Inter Subject Variability and Reproducibility of Diffusion Tensor Imaging within and between Different Imaging Sessions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Veenith, Tonny V ^a   Carter, Eleanor ^a   Grossac, Julia ^a   Newcombe, Virginia F J ^a   Outtrim, Joanne G ^a   Lupson, Victoria ^b   Williams, Guy B ^b   Menon, David K ^a   Coles, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BRAIN REGION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERSUBJECT VARIABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84879521065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065941     Document Type: Article

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