Fast FLAIR of the brain: The range of appearances in normal subjects and its application to quantification of white-matter disease

Neuroradiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 243-249

  Gawne Cain, M L ^a   Silver, N C ^a   Moseley, I F ^b   Miller, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b National Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluid attenuated inversion recovery sequences; Magnetic resonance imaging; Normal brain

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALAMUS;

EID: 0030939246     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002340050402     Document Type: Article

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