Diffusion Imaging of the Human Spinal Cord and the Vertebral Column

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 461-476

  Bammer, Roland ^a   Fazekas, Franz ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Spinal cord; Vertebral body

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANISOTROPY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINE; SPONDYLOSIS; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 1242276121     PISSN: 08993459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002142-200312000-00004     Document Type: Review

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