Effects of study design in multi-scanner voxel-based morphometry studies

NeuroImage

Volumn 84, Issue , 2014, Pages 133-140

  Takao, Hidemasa ^a   Hayashi, Naoto ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Multi center; Multi site; Reliability; Reproducibility; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTOME; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDY; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84884163825     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.08.046     Document Type: Article

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