1H magnetic resonance in the study of hepatic encephalopathy in humans

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 415-429

  Córdoba, Juan ^a   Sanpedro, Francesc ^a   Alonso, Juli ^a   Rovira, Alex ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

1H magnetic resonance; 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Hepatic encephalopathy; Magnetization transfer imaging

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; MANGANESE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PROTON;

ASTROCYTE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN EDEMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OSMOLALITY; PARKINSONISM; PATHOGENESIS; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RELAXATION TIME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTONS;

EID: 0036981517     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021926405944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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