Estimating Intracranial Volume in Brain Research: An Evaluation of Methods

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 427-441

  Sargolzaei, Saman ^a   Sargolzaei, Arman ^a   Cabrerizo, Mercedes ^a   Chen, Gang ^b   Goryawala, Mohammed ^a   Pinzon Ardila, Alberto ^c   Gonzalez Arias, Sergio M ^c,d   Adjouadi, Malek ^a,e  

^a Florida International University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c BAPTIST HOSPITAL OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Biomedical Engineering Florida International University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

FreeSurfer (RRID:nif 0000 00304); FSL (RRID:nif 0000 00305); Intracranial volume estimation; MRI; SPM (RRID:nif 0000 00343)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84945469103     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-015-9266-5     Document Type: Article

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