Classifying late-onset dementia with MRI: Is arteriosclerotic brain degeneration the most common cause of Alzheimer's syndrome?

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 187-199

  Henry Feugeas, Marie Cécile ^a   Onen, Fannie ^a   Claeys, Elisabeth Schouman ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Atherosclerosis; Dementia; Mild cognitive impairment; MRI; Phase contrast

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; RISK FACTOR;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ATROPHY; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

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