Reproducibility, and age, body-weight and gender dependency of candidate skeletal muscle MRI outcome measures in healthy volunteers

European Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1610-1620

  Morrow, Jasper M ^a   Sinclair, Christopher D J ^a   Fischmann, Arne ^b   Reilly, Mary M ^a   Hanna, Michael G ^a   Yousry, Tarek A ^a   Thornton, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lower extremity; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neuromuscular diseases; Outcome assessment; Reference values

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RELAXOMETRY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THIGH; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEX DIFFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902360840     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3145-6     Document Type: Article

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