Clinical experience with diffusion-weighted MR in patients with acute stroke

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1061-1066

  Lövblad, Karl Olof ^a,c   Laubach, Hans Joachim ^a   Baird, Alison E ^a   Curtin, François ^b   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a   Edelman, Robert R ^a   Warach, Steven ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIFFUSION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032472015     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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