Assessing cerebrovascular contribution to late dementia of the Alzheimer's type: The role of combined hemodynamic and structural MR analysis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 44-48

  Henry Feugeas, Marie Cécile ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Brain atrophy; Cerebrovascular disease; Dementia; Flow quantification; Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN METABOLISM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; HEMODYNAMICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; BLOOD VOLUME DETERMINATION; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 67650156093     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2009.02.325     Document Type: Article

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