Sagittal MR of multiple sclerosis in the spinal cord: Fast versus conventional spin-echo imaging

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 355-360

  Lycklama À Nijeholt, Geert J ^a,c   Castelijns, Jonas A ^a   Weerts, Jan ^a   Adèr, Herman ^b   Van Waesberghe, Jan Hein T M ^a   Polman, Chris ^a   Barkhof, Frederik ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032472037     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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