Intracranial arterial wall imaging using high-resolution 3-tesla contrast-enhanced MRI

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 627-634

  Swartz, R H ^a   Bhuta, S S ^a   Farb, R I ^a   Agid, R ^a   Willinsky, R A ^a   Terbrugge, K G ^a   Butany, J ^a   Wasserman, B A ^b   Johnstone, D M ^a   Silver, F L ^a   Mikulis, D J ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ARTERY; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL WALL; MALE; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; VASCULITIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61849120734     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000342470.69739.b3     Document Type: Article

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