Serial evaluation of axonal function in patients with brain death by using anisotropic diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 56-60

  Watanabe, Toru ^a   Honda, Yoshiho ^b   Fujii, Yukimko ^b   Koyama, Miyako ^b   Tanaka, Ryuichi ^b  

^a Department of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Axonal function; Axoplasmic transport; Brain death; Stroke; Three dimensional anisotropy contrast magnetic resonance axonography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN METABOLISM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ANISOTROPY CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE AXONOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0345732097     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2004.100.1.0056     Document Type: Article

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