Lesion discrimination in optic neuritis using high-resolution fat-suppressed fast spin-echo MRI

Neuroradiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 317-321

  Gass, A ^a   Moseley, I F ^a,b   Barker, G J ^a   Jones, S ^a   MacManus, D ^a   McDonald, W I ^a,b   Miller, D H ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fast spin echo; Fat suppression; Magnetic resonance imaging; Optic neuritis; STIR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NERVE SHEATH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EID: 0029979656     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00596577     Document Type: Article

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