Departments of *Radiology
†Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Supported by NINDS K23 NS050305.
Data collection and sharing for this project was funded by the ADNI (principal investigator: Michael Weiner; NIH grant U01 AG024904). ADNI is funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), and through generous contributions from the following: Pfizer Inc, Wyeth Research, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Co, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and Co Inc, AstraZeneca AB, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp, Alzheimer's Association, Eisai Global Clinical Development, Elan Corp plc, Forest Laboratories, and the Institute for the Study of Aging, with participation from the US Food and Drug Administration. Industry partnerships are coordinated through the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. The grantee organization is the Northern California Institute for Research and Education, and the study is coordinated by the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study at the University of California, San Diego. ADNI data are disseminated by the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Inititative: Data used in the preparation of this article were obtained from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database (www.loni.ucla.edu/ADNI). As such, the investigators within the ADNI contributed to the design and implementation of ADNI and/or provided data but did not participate in analysis or writing of this report. A complete listing of ADNI investigators is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/ADNI/Data/ADNI_Authorship_List.pdf.
Authors report no conflicts with CorTechs, manufacturers of NeuroQuant software used for automated segmentations. CorTechs provided authors with free access to their proprietary software to analyze the data for the purposes of this paper, and had no input in the data analysis or the preparation of this manuscript.
Reprints: James B. Brewer, MD, PhD, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093-0949 (e-mail: [email protected]).
Received for publication July 24, 2008; accepted October 27, 2008
