Age, gender and normalization covariates for spinal cord gray matter and total cross-sectional areas at cervical and thoracic levels: A 2D phase sensitive inversion recovery imaging study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Papinutto, Nico ^a   Schlaeger, Regina ^a,b   Panara, Valentina ^c   Zhu, Alyssa H ^a   Caverzasi, Eduardo ^a   Stern, William A ^a   Hauser, Stephen L ^a   Henry, Roland G ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TOTAL CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; TWO DIMENSIONAL PHASE SENSITIVE INVERSION RECOVERY SEQUENCE; VERTEBRA; WHITE MATTER; AGED; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CERVICAL VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STANDARDS; THORACIC VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 84925004644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118576     Document Type: Article

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