Investigating the spinal cord atrophy measurement on MRI from two aspects : physiological variations and longitudinal measurement methods
Spinal cord atrophy is a valuable biomarker in multiple sclerosis (MS) for its significant correlation with physical disability. Measurement of spinal cord atrophy on MRI may be possibly confounded by fluctuations in water content, and the high measurement variance in previous longitudinal studies c...
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University of British Columbia
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51662 |