Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 182, Issue 3 , Pages 244-250 , 30 June 2010

Multicentre variability of MRI-based medial temporal lobe volumetry in Alzheimer's disease

  • Stefan J. Teipel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Rostock, Germany
    • Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, University of Rostock, Gehlsheimer Str. 20, 18147 Rostock, Germany. Tel.: +49 381 494 9610; fax: +49 381 494 9682.
    • ,
  • Michael Ewers

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany
    • Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
    • ,
  • Stefanie Wolf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Göttingen, Germany
    • ,
  • Frank Jessen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Bonn, Germany
    • ,
  • Heike Kölsch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Bonn, Germany
    • ,
  • Sönke Arlt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Hamburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Christian Luckhaus

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
    • ,
  • Peter Schönknecht

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Germany
    • ,
  • Klaus Schmidtke

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Isabella Heuser

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Lutz Frölich

      Affiliations

    • Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
    • ,
  • Gabriele Ende

      Affiliations

    • Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
    • ,
  • Johannes Pantel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Frankfurt, Germany
    • ,
  • Jens Wiltfang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Essen, Germany
    • ,
  • Fabian Rakebrandt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Informatics, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany
    • ,
  • Oliver Peters

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Christine Born

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
    • ,
  • Johannes Kornhuber

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
    • ,
  • Harald Hampel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany
    • Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Received 12 January 2009 ,Revised 16 February 2010 ,Accepted 11 March 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.03.003

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 182, Issue 3 , Pages 244-250 , 30 June 2010

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