Relationship between variations in the circle of Willis and flow rates in internal carotid and basilar arteries determined by means of magnetic resonance imaging with semiautomated lumen segmentation: Reference data from 125 healthy volunteers

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1770-1775

  Tanaka, Hisashi ^a   Fujita, N ^a   Enoki, T ^a   Matsumoto, K ^a   Watanabe, Y ^a   Murase, K ^a   Nakamura, H ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33748783826     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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