Diminished Visibility of Cerebral Venous Vasculature in Multiple Sclerosis by Susceptibility- Weighted Imaging at 3.0 Tesla

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1190-1194

  Ge, Yulin ^a,d   Zohrabian, Vahe M ^a   Osa, Etin Osa ^a   Xu, Jian ^b   Jaggi, Hina ^a   Herbert, Joseph ^a   Haacke, E Mark ^c   Grossman, Robert I ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MRI   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance; Multiple sclerosis; Oxygenation; Susceptibility weighted imaging; Venography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VEIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL VEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66149097017     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21758     Document Type: Article

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