The substantia nigra in Parkinson disease: Proton density-weighted spin-echo and fast short inversion time inversion-recovery MR findings

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1747-1756

  Oikawa, Hirobumi ^a   Sasaki, Makoto ^a   Tamakawa, Yoshiharu ^a   Ehara, Shigeru ^a   Tohyama, Koujiro ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RED NUCLEUS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROTONS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0036845242     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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