The ASPECTS template is weighted in favor of the striatocapsular region

NeuroImage

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 477-481

  Phan, Thanh G ^a,b,e   Donnan, Geoffrey A ^a,e   Koga, Masatoshi ^a,e   Mitchell, L Anne ^c,d   Molan, Maurice ^c   Fitt, Gregory ^c   Chong, Winston ^e   Holt, Michael ^e   Reutens, David C ^e  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (Australia)

^c AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

ASPECTS; Infarct; Middle cerebral artery; Regression; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646852099     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.12.059     Document Type: Article

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