The use of the lumbosacral enlargement as an intrinsic imaging biomarker: Feasibility of grey matter and white matter cross-sectional area measurements using MRI at 3T

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Yiannakas, Marios C ^a   Kakar, Puneet ^a   Hoy, Luke R ^a   Miller, David H ^a   Wheeler Kingshott, Claudia A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LUMBOSACRAL ENLARGEMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHITE MATTER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925008858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105544     Document Type: Article

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