Cortical thickness estimation in longitudinal stroke studies: A comparison of 3 measurement methods

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 8, Issue , 2015, Pages 526-535

  Li, Qi ^a   Pardoe, Heath ^a,b,c   Lichter, Renee ^a,b   Werden, Emilio ^a,b   Raffelt, Audrey ^a   Cumming, Toby ^a,b   Brodtmann, Amy ^a,b  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparison; Cortical thickness; Stroke; Surface based; Voxel based

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SURFACE BASED METHOD; SURFACE PROPERTY; VOXEL BASED METHOD; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; BIOMARKERS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE;

EID: 84931272893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.08.017     Document Type: Article

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