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Without controversy, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging achieves exquisite approximation of gross anatomy. This has been appreciated from the onset of the se of MR technology to image the brain. However, what has been clinically lacking in the first decade of MR use is a rapid yet automated means to quantify various neuroanatomic structures. As such, much of the interpretation of MR imaging has been based primarily on a qualitative rather than quantitative analysis (see Osborn, 1994).
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Blatter, D.D., Bigler, E.D., Johnson, C.S., Anderson, C., Gale, S.D. (1996). A Normative Database from Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: Bigler, E.D. (eds) Neuroimaging I. Human Brain Function. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1701-0_4
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