Detection of unstable carotid artery stenosis using MRI

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 254, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1714-1722

  Esposito, L ^a   Sievers, M ^a   Sander, D ^b   Heider, P ^a   Wolf, O ^a   Greil, O ^a   Zimmer, C ^a   Poppert, H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Medical Park Loipl ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotid artery stenosis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Plaque

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 37749016409     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-007-0634-4     Document Type: Article

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