Potholes and molehills: Bias in the diagnostic performance of diffusion-tensor imaging in concussion

Radiology

Volumn 272, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 217-223

  Watts, Richard ^a   Thomas, Alex ^b   Filippi, Christopher G ^a,c   Nickerson, Joshua P ^a   Freeman, Kalev ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCUSSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMERGENCY WARD; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POTHOLE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL BIAS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER LESION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84903733815     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.14131856     Document Type: Article

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