Myelination process in preterm subjects with periventricular leucomalacia assessed by magnetization transfer ratio

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 934-939

  Xydis, Vassilios ^a   Astrakas, Loukas ^a   Drougia, Aikaterini ^b   Gassias, Dimitrios ^a   Andronikou, Styliani ^b   Argyropoulou, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brain; Magnetization transfer imaging; Myelination; Periventricular leucomalacia; Preterm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MYELINATION; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL VALUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; THALAMUS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33746893755     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-006-0235-x     Document Type: Article

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