Intersite reliability of diffusion tensor imaging on two 3T scanners

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 227-233

  Kamagata, Koji ^a   Shimoji, Keigo ^b   Hori, Masaaki ^a   Nishikori, Akira ^c   Tsuruta, Kohei ^c   Yoshida, Mariko ^a   Kamiya, Kouhei ^d   Irie, Ryusuke ^a   Suzuki, Michimasa ^a   Kyogoku, Shinsuke ^a   Suzuki, Yuriko ^e   Sato, Noriko ^b   Aoki, Shigeki ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry Hospital   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Intersite; Reliability; Reproducibility; Tract based spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DEVICES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84929345934     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.2014-0077     Document Type: Article

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