High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging for detection of carotid plaques

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 338-344

  Honda, Masaru ^a   Kitagawa, Naoki ^a   Tsutsumi, Keisuke ^a   Nagata, Izumi ^a   Morikawa, Minoru ^a   Hayashi, Tomayoshi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid plaque; Magnetic resonance image

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STROKE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 32244437242     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000195097.31033.66     Document Type: Article

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