Quantifying spinal cord demyelination with magnetic transfer imaging

Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1677-1678

  Barkhof, Frederik ^a   McKinstry, Robert C ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DEMYELINATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD;

ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

EID: 18844437763     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000164456.84198.07     Document Type: Editorial

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