Chapter 54 Imaging functional recovery from stroke

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

Volumn 94, Issue , 2008, Pages 1097-1117

  Cramer, Steven C ^a   Seitz, Rüdiger J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; STROKE; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66049102477     PISSN: 00729752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0072-9752(08)94054-9     Document Type: Review

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