Lesion explorer: A video-guided, standardized protocol for accurate and reliable MRI-derived Volumetrics in Alzheimer's disease and normal elderly

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 86, 2014, Pages

  Ramirez, Joel ^a   Scott, Christopher J M ^a   McNeely, Alicia A ^a   Berezuk, Courtney ^a   Gao, Fuqiang ^a   Szilagyi, Gregory M ^a,b   Black, Sandra E ^a,b  

^a HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer disease; Brain; Brain extraction; Cerebrovascular disease; Issue 86; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Medicine; Neuroanatomy; Neuroimaging; Vascular diseases; Ventricles; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931030837     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50887     Document Type: Article

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