Diagnostic imaging of patients in a memory clinic: Comparison of MR imaging and 64-detector row CT

Radiology

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 174-183

  Wattjes, Mike P ^a   Henneman, Wouter J P ^a   Van Der Flier, Wiesje M ^a   De Vries, Oscar ^a   Träber, Frank ^b   Geurts, Jeroen J G ^a   Scheltens, Philip ^a   Vrenken, Hugo ^a   Barkhof, Frederik ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENINGIOMA; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350513098     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2531082262     Document Type: Article

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