Susceptibility weighted magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral cavernous malformations: Prospects, drawbacks, and first experience at ultra-high field strength (7-Tesla) magnetic resonance imaging

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Dammann, Philipp ^a,b   Barth, Markus ^a,c   Zhu, Yuan ^b   Maderwald, Stefan ^a,b   Schlamann, Marc ^b   Ladd, Mark E ^a,b   Sure, Ulrich ^b  

^a ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cavernous malformation; High field magnetic resonance imaging; Susceptibility weighted imaging; Venous anomaly

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956197352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.6.FOCUS10130     Document Type: Article

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