Multi-centre reproducibility of diffusion MRI parameters for clinical sequences in the brain

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 468-485

  Grech Sollars, Matthew ^a   Hales, Patrick W ^a   Miyazaki, Keiko ^b   Raschke, Felix ^c   Rodriguez, Daniel ^d,e   Wilson, Martin ^f   Gill, Simrandip K ^f   Banks, Tina ^g   Saunders, Dawn E ^g   Clayden, Jonathan D ^a   Gwilliam, Matt N ^b   Barrick, Thomas R ^c   Morgan, Paul S ^d,e   Davies, Nigel P ^h   Rossiter, James ^f   Auer, Dorothee P ^d,e   Grundy, Richard ^e   Leach, Martin O ^b   Howe, Franklyn A ^c   Peet, Andrew C ^f   Clark, Chris A ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffusion; MRI; Multi centre; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCANNING; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TENSORS;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DERIVED PARAMETERS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; MIXED-EFFECT MODELS; MULTI-CENTRE; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CHOROID PLEXUS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; BODY WATER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ICE; WATER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BODY WATER; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; ICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NEUROIMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84925257944     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3269     Document Type: Article

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