AnalyzeDirect Valdés Hernández MC, Jeong TH, Murray C, Bastin ME, Chappell FM, Deary IJ, Wardlaw JM. Reliability of two techniques for assessing cerebral iron deposits with structural magnetic resonance imaging. J Magn Reson Imaging. January 2011;33(1):54-61.
Publication Date
January 2011
How Analyze was Used
“A brain mask was then obtained from the T2*W data using the Object Extraction Tool in Analyze 8.1 (www.analyzedirect.com), which applies thresholding, morphological erosion, dilation, and region growing steps to separate the brain from the skull.”
Keywords
Algorithms
Brain/metabolism
Female
Humans
Image Enhancement/methods
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted/methods
Iron/metabolism
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)/methods
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/methods
Male
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Tissue Distribution
Author Affiliation(s)
SINAPSE Collaboration, SFC Brain Imaging Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (MCVH, MEB, FMC, JMW)
Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (MCVH, CM, MEB, IJD, JMW)
School of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (THJ)
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (CM, IJD)
Medical and Radiological Sciences (Medical Physics), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (MEB)
ID# 661
Tags: Algorithms, Brain/metabolism, Computer-Assisted Image Interpretation/methods, Female, Humans, Image Enhancement/methods, Iron/metabolism, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)/methods, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/methods, Male, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity, Tissue Distribution