MR evaluation of age-related increase of brain iron in young adult and older normal males

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-35

  Bartzokis, George ^a,b,c   Beckson, Mace ^a,b   Hange, Darwood B ^b   Marx, Peter ^b   Foster, Jennifer A ^a   Marder, Stephen R ^a,b  

^a VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrapyramidal nuclei; Ferritin; Field strength dependence of transverse relaxation rate (R2); Magnetic resonance; T2 relaxation time

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0030952974     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(96)00234-2     Document Type: Article

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