Acquisition guidelines and quality assessment tools for analyzing neonatal diffusion tensor MRI data

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1496-1505

  Heemskerk, A M ^a   Leemans, A ^b   Plaisier, A ^a   Pieterman, K ^a   Lequin, M H ^a   Dudink, J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORE TEMPERATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MOTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RELAXATION TIME; RELIABILITY; WHITE MATTER;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84883083734     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3465     Document Type: Article

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