Diffusion weighted MRI imaging and MES detection in the assessment of stroke origin

Neurological Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 480-484

  Droste, Dirk W ^a,b   Knapp, Jan ^a   Freund, Michael ^a   Nágy, Ildikó ^c   Schulte, Volker ^a   Schomacher, Guido ^a   Csiba, László ^d   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c Aladar Petz County Teaching Hospital   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cerebral embolism; Cerebrovascular disorders; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 34548180281     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164107X164120     Document Type: Article

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