Lesion load quantification on fast-flair, rapid acquisition relaxation- enhanced, and gradient spin echo brain MRI scans from multiple sclerosis patients

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1105-1110

  Rovaris, Marco ^a   Rocca, Maria A ^a   Yousry, Indra ^b   Yousry, Tarek A ^b   Colombo, Bruno ^a   Comi, Giancarlo ^a   Filippi, Massimo ^a  

^a Dept Neurosci Sci Inst Osp S ^*  (Italy)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain MRI; Fast FLAIR; GRASE; Lesion load; Measurement reproducibility; Multiple sclerosis; RARE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032827301     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(99)00068-5     Document Type: Article

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