| Literature DB >> 29106329 |
Jiwon Oh1, Rohit Bakshi2, Peter A Calabresi3, Ciprian Crainiceanu3, Roland G Henry4, Govind Nair5, Nico Papinutto4, R Todd Constable6, Daniel S Reich5, Daniel Pelletier7, William Rooney8, Daniel Schwartz8, Ian Tagge8, Russell T Shinohara9, Jack H Simon8, Nancy L Sicotte10.
Abstract
The North American Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis (NAIMS) Cooperative represents a network of 27 academic centers focused on accelerating the pace of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research in multiple sclerosis (MS) through idea exchange and collaboration. Recently, NAIMS completed its first project evaluating the feasibility of implementation and reproducibility of quantitative MRI measures derived from scanning a single MS patient using a high-resolution 3T protocol at seven sites. The results showed the feasibility of utilizing advanced quantitative MRI measures in multicenter studies and demonstrated the importance of careful standardization of scanning protocols, central image processing, and strategies to account for inter-site variability.Entities:
Keywords: MRI; North America; collaboration
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Year: 2017 PMID: 29106329 PMCID: PMC5878974 DOI: 10.1177/1352458517739990
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mult Scler ISSN: 1352-4585 Impact factor: 6.312