Surface appearance of the vertebrobasilar artery revealed on basiparallel anatomic scanning (BPAS)-MR imaging: Its role for brain MR examination

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2508-2513

  Nagahata, Morio ^a,b   Abe, Yoshinao ^b   Ono, Shuichi ^b   Hosoya, Takaaki ^c   Uno, Seiyu ^a  

^a Kuroishi City Hospital   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33644837420     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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