Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 69-78 , 30 June 2006

Regional distribution of measurement error in diffusion tensor imaging

  • Stefano Marenco

      Affiliations

    • Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, IRP, NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. NIMH, CBDB, 10 Center Drive, Building 10, room 4S235, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Tel.: +1 301 435 8964; fax: +1 301 480 7795.
    • ,
  • Robert Rawlings

      Affiliations

    • Section for Brain Electrophysiology and Imaging, LCS, IRP, NIAAA, Bethesda, MD, United States
    • ,
  • Gustavo K. Rohde

      Affiliations

    • Section of Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics, LIMB, IRP, NICHD, Bethesda, MD, United States
    • Currently at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375.
    • ,
  • Alan S. Barnett

      Affiliations

    • Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, IRP, NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
    • ,
  • Robyn A. Honea

      Affiliations

    • Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, IRP, NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
    • ,
  • Carlo Pierpaoli

      Affiliations

    • Section of Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics, LIMB, IRP, NICHD, Bethesda, MD, United States
    • ,
  • Daniel R. Weinberger

      Affiliations

    • Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, IRP, NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States

Received 31 May 2005 ,Revised 28 November 2005 ,Accepted 2 January 2006.

References 

  1. Bartko JJ, Carpenter WT. On the methods and theory of reliability. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. 1976;163(5):307–317
  2. Basser PJ, Pierpaoli C. Microstructural and physiological features of tissues elucidated by quantitative-diffusion-tensor MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, B. 1996;111(3):209–219
  3. Bastin ME, Armitage PA, Marshall I. A theoretical study of the effect of experimental noise on the measurement of anisotropy in diffusion imaging. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 1998;16(7):773–785
  4. Bland JM, Altman DG. Measurement error. British Medical Journal. 1996;313(7059):744
  5. Cassol E, Ranjeva JP, Ibarrola D, Mekies C, Manelfe C, Clanet M, et al. Diffusion tensor imaging in multiple sclerosis: a tool for monitoring changes in normal-appearing white matter. Multiple Sclerosis. 2004;10(2):188–196
  6. Ciccarelli O, Parker GJ, Toosy AT, Wheeler-Kingshott CA, Barker GJ, Boulby PA, et al. From diffusion tractography to quantitative white matter tract measures: a reproducibility study. Neuroimage. 2003;18(2):348–359
  7. Heim S, Hahn K, Samann PG, Fahrmeir L, Auer DP. Assessing DTI data quality using bootstrap analysis. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2004;52(3):582–589
  8. Henkelman RM. Measurement of signal intensities in the presence of noise in MR images. Medical Physics. 1985;12(2):232–233
  9. Kalus P, Buri C, Slotboom J, Gralla J, Remonda L, Dierks T, et al. Volumetry and diffusion tensor imaging of hippocampal subregions in schizophrenia. Neuroreport. 2004;15(5):867–871
  10. Kalus P, Slotboom J, Gallinat J, Federspiel A, Gralla J, Remonda L, et al. New evidence for involvement of the entorhinal region in schizophrenia: a combined MRI volumetric and DTI study. Neuroimage. 2005;24(4):1122–1129
  11. Kubicki M, Maier SE, Westin CF, Mamata H, Ersner-Hershfield H, Estepar R, et al. Comparison of single-shot echo-planar and line scan protocols for diffusion tensor imaging. Academy of Radiology. 2004;11(2):224–232
  12. Nichols TE, Holmes AP. Nonparametric permutation tests for functional neuroimaging: a primer with examples. Human Brain Mapping. 2002;15(1):1–25
  13. Pfefferbaum A, Adalsteinsson E, Sullivan EV. Replicability of diffusion tensor imaging measurements of fractional anisotropy and trace in brain. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2003;18(4):427–433
  14. Pierpaoli C, Basser PJ. Toward a quantitative assessment of diffusion anisotropy. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 1996;36(6):893–906
  15. Rohde GK, Barnett AS, Basser PJ, Marenco S, Pierpaoli C. Comprehensive approach for correction of motion and distortion in diffusion-weighted MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2004;51(1):103–114
  16. Smith SM. Fast robust automated brain extraction. Human Brain Mapping. 2002;17(3):143–155
  17. Steens SC, Admiraal-Behloul F, Schaap JA, Hoogenraad FG, Wheeler-Kingshott CA, le Cessie S, et al. Reproducibility of brain ADC histograms. European Radiology. 2004;14(3):425–430
  18. Toosy AT, Ciccarelli O, Parker GJ, Wheeler-Kingshott CA, Miller DH, Thompson AJ. Characterizing function-structure relationships in the human visual system with functional MRI and diffusion tensor imaging. Neuroimage. 2004;21(4):1452–1463

PII: S0925-4927(06)00011-4

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.01.008

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 69-78 , 30 June 2006

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution