Hypointensities in the Brain on T2*-Weighted Gradient-Echo Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 140-150

  Tsushima, Yoshito ^a   Endo, Keigo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; FERRITIN; HEMOSIDERIN; METAL;

AIR; ANEURYSM CLIP; ARTIFACT; AXONAL INJURY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MICROANGIOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIDEROSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TELANGIECTASIA; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 33745260965     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2006.04.002     Document Type: Review

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