Measuring demyelination and remyelination in acute multiple sclerosis lesion voxels

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 375-381

  Giacomini, Paul S ^a   Levesque, Ives R ^a   Ribeiro, Luciana ^a,b   Narayanan, Sridar ^a   Francis, Simon J ^a   Pike, G Bruce ^a   Arnold, Douglas L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYELIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMYELINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MACROMOLECULE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMYELINIZATION; WATER CONTENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; MYELIN SHEATH;

EID: 62449248838     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2008.578     Document Type: Article

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