Utility of fat-suppressed FLAIR and subtraction imaging in detecting meningeal abnormalities

Neuroradiology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 881-885

  McKinney, Alexander ^a   Palmer, Chris ^a   Short, James ^a   Lucato, Leandro ^b   Truwit, Charles ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

FLAIR; Gadolinium; Meningitis; SPIR; Subtraction

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MENINX DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33751503158     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-006-0145-5     Document Type: Article

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