Magnetic resonance imaging of brain death

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 166-171

  Matsumura, Akira ^a,b   Meguro, Kotoo ^a   Tsurushima, Hideo ^a   Komatsu, Youji ^a   Kikuchi, Yoichi ^a   Wada, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Nakata, Yoshitaka ^a   Ohashi, Noriyoshi ^a   Nose, Tadao ^b  

^a TSUKUBA MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

angiography; brain death; diagnosis; flow void; magnetic resonance imaging; non filling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0029970272     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.166     Document Type: Article

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