Science to practice: Does MR imaging improve precision in stroke thrombolysis trials?

Radiology

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 323-324

  Hackney, David B ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; MICROPLASMIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PLASMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STROKE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ANIMAL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIALS; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMIN; RATS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 34447509713     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2442062193     Document Type: Short Survey

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