Pediatric brain tumor consortium multisite assessment of apparent diffusion coefficient z-Axis variation assessed with an ice-water phantom

Academic Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 363-369

  Mulkern, Robert V ^a,b   Ricci, Kelsey I ^b   Vajapeyam, Sridhar ^a,b   Chenevert, Thomas L ^c   Malyarenko, Dariya I ^c   Kocak, Mehmet ^d,e   Poussaint, Tina Young ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion phantom; MRI; Pediatric brain tumors; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; STATISTICAL MODEL; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; IMAGING PHANTOM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ICE; WATER;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; HUMANS; ICE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 84927638124     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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