Diffusion tensor imaging correlates with lesion volume in cerebral hemisphere infarctions

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rossi, Maija E ^a   Jason, Eeva ^a,b   Marchesotti, Silvia ^a,c   Dastidar, Prasun ^a,b   Ollikainen, Jyrki ^a   Soimakallio, Seppo ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBRUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77957768335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-10-21     Document Type: Article

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