Imaging of acute ischemic stroke

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 455-468

  Leiva Salinas, Carlos ^a   Wintermark, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; DW imaging; MRI; Perfusion; Stroke; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; DESMOTEPLASE; PLACEBO;

ACUTE BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; FAT SATURATED T1 WEIGHTED IMAGING; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIMODAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIMODAL NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; REPERFUSION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958190701     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2010.07.002     Document Type: Review

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