Multicenter measurements of myelin water fraction and geometric mean T 2: Intra- and intersite reproducibility

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1445-1453

  Meyers, Sandra M ^a   Vavasour, Irene M ^a   Mädler, Burkhard ^b   Harris, Trudy ^a   Fu, Eric ^c   Li, David K B ^a   Traboulsee, Anthony L ^a   Mackay, Alex L ^a   Laule, Cornelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

coefficients of variation; intersite; magnetic resonance imaging; myelin water fraction; reproducibility; T2 relaxation

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; MYELIN; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GEOMETRIC MEAN T2; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELIN WATER FRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHITE MATTER;

COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATION; INTERSITE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELIN WATER FRACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; T2 RELAXATION;

ADULT; BODY WATER; BRAIN; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN SHEATH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84888311439     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24106     Document Type: Article

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