Simultaneous diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images and brain blood perfusion scintigraphy for a transient lesion in the splenium of the corpus callosum

Brain and Development

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 200-202

  Nojo, Takeshi ^a,b   Takao, Hidemasa ^c   Kohyama, Jun ^a  

^a Tokyo Kita Social Insurance Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Diffusion; MRI; SPECT; Transient lesion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 39149137552     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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