Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 163, Issue 3 , Pages 279-288 , 30 August 2008

Volumetrics of the caudate nucleus: Reliability and validity of a new manual tracing protocol

  • Jeffrey Chee Leong Looi

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, The Canberra Hospital, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
    • Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences & Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Building 4, Level 2, The Canberra Hospital, PO Box 11, Woden ACT 2605, Australia. Tel.: +61 2 6205 1977; fax: +61 2 6244 4964.
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  • Olof Lindberg

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences & Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Benny Liberg

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences & Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Vanessa Tatham

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, The Canberra Hospital, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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  • Rajeev Kumar

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, The Canberra Hospital, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
    • Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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  • Jerome Maller

      Affiliations

    • Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University & Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberrra, Australia
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  • Ellen Millard

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, The Canberra Hospital, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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  • Perminder Sachdev

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
    • Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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  • Göran Högberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section for Psychiatry, Huddinge, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Marco Pagani

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy
    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Lisa Botes

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska University Hospital, Hospital Physics and Radiology, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Eva-Lena Engman

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska University Hospital, Hospital Physics and Radiology, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Yi Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska University Hospital, Hospital Physics and Radiology, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Leif Svensson

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska University Hospital, Hospital Physics and Radiology, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Lars-Olof Wahlund

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences & Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Stockholm, Sweden

Received 20 November 2006 ,Revised 25 June 2007 ,Accepted 16 July 2007.

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PII: S0925-4927(07)00148-5

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.07.005

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