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Effects of image distortion correction on voxel-based morphometry.

Masami Goto¹, Osamu Abe, Hiroyuki Kabasawa

¹Department of Radiological Technology, University of Tokyo Hospital.

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences : MRMS : an Official Journal of Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

|March 28, 2012

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Correcting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) distortion significantly improves brain volume measurements using voxel-based morphometry (VBM). This distortion correction reduces system dependency, ensuring more accurate results across different scanners.

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