Magnetization Transfer Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, Spinal Cord, and Optic Nerve

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 401-413

  Filippi, Massimo ^a   Rocca, Maria A ^a  

^a Scientific Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

brain; demyelinating conditions; Magnetic resonance imaging; magnetization transfer imaging; neurodegenerative conditions; optic nerve; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAIN; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CADASIL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROTENDINOUS XANTHOMATOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; COMPREHENSION; DEMENTIA; EPILEPSY; FABRY DISEASE; GRAY MATTER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYDROCEPHALUS; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRAINE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEUROBORRELIOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; SYMPTOM; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TUBERCULOSIS; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 34250786962     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurt.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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