Advances in neuroimaging of acute stroke

Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 126-135

  Kidwell, Chelsea S ^a   Villablanca, J Pablo ^a   Saver, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Ischemic Stroke; Acute Stroke; Apparent Diffusion Coefficient; Digital Subtraction Angiography; Single Photon Emission Compute Tomography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0034156846     PISSN: 15233804     EISSN: 15346242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11883-000-0107-z     Document Type: Article

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