Published ahead of print on March 27, 2008
doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A1044
Reproducibility, Interrater Agreement, and Age-Related Changes of Fractional Anisotropy Measures at 3T in Healthy Subjects: Effect of the Applied b-Value
S. Bisdasa,
D.E. Bohninga,
N. Be
enskia,
J.S. Nicholasb and
Z. Rumboldta
a Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
b Department of Neurosciences and Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

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Fig 1. Normal subject. FA map shows highly directional white matter tracts (corticospinal tracts) in the region of brain stem. The ROIs (50 mm2) for the estimation of the FA values are placed exclusively within the central portion of the visualized white matter tracts.
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