Estimating volumes of the pituitary gland from T1-weighted magnetic-resonance images: Effects of age, puberty, testosterone, and estradiol

NeuroImage

Volumn 94, Issue , 2014, Pages 216-221

  Wong, Angelita Pui Yee ^a,b   Pipitone, Jon ^c   Park, Min Tae M ^c   Dickie, Erin W ^b   Leonard, Gabriel ^d   Perron, Michel ^e,f   Pike, Bruce G ^g   Richer, Louis ^f   Veillette, Suzanne ^e,f   Chakravarty, M Mallar ^a,b,c,h   Pausova, Zdenka ⁱ   Paus, Tomáš ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e ECOBES Cégep de Jonquière ^*  (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOPHYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENARCHE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN GROWTH; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY VOLUME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; YOUNG ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BLOOD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY GLAND; PUBERTY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898622841     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.02.030     Document Type: Article

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