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Pitfalls in the Use of Voxel-Based Morphometry as a Biomarker: Examples from Huntington Disease

S.M.D. Henley, G.R. Ridgway, R.I. Scahill, S. Klöppel, S.J. Tabrizi, N.C. Fox, J. Kassubek and for the EHDN Imaging Working Group
American Journal of Neuroradiology April 2010, 31 (4) 711-719; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A1939
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