Intracranial calcification on gradient-echo phase image: Depiction of diamagnetic susceptibility

Radiology

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 171-178

  Yamada, Naoaki ^a   Imakita, Sattoshi ^a   Sakuma, Toshiharu ^a   Takamiya, Makoto ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain, calcification; Brain, hemorrhage; Brain, MR; Brain, necrosis; Magnetic resonance (MR), tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN NECROSIS; BRAIN TISSUE; CHILD; CHOROID PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030068962     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.198.1.8539373     Document Type: Article

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