The Imaging of the Cerebral Venous Sinuses

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 525-558

  Sheerin, Fintan ^a  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHONDROPLASIA; ALBERS SCHOENBERG DISEASE; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL VEINS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRANIAL SINUSES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 71749116880     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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