Measuring Brain Volume by MR Imaging: Impact of Measurement Precision and Natural Variation on Sample Size Requirements

R.G. Steen; R.M. Hamer; J.A. Lieberman

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Measuring Brain Volume by MR Imaging: Impact of Measurement Precision and Natural Variation on Sample Size Requirements

R.G. Steen, R.M. Hamer and J.A. Lieberman

American Journal of Neuroradiology June 2007, 28 (6) 1119-1125; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A0537

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Received June 19, 2006
Accepted after revision November 5, 2006
Published online June 14, 2007.

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R.G. Steena,
R.M. Hamera,b and
J.A. Liebermana,c

^aDepartments of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
^bDepartments of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
^cDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York

Please address correspondence to R. Grant Steen, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Campus Box #7160, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7160; e-mail: Grant_Steen{at}med.unc.edu

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