Quantitative MR imaging of brain iron: A postmortem validation study

Radiology

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 455-462

  Langkammer, Christian ^a,b   Krebs, Nikolaus ^b   Goessler, Walter ^c   Scheurer, Eva ^b   Ebner, Franz ^a   Yen, Kathrin ^b   Fazekas, Franz ^a   Ropele, Stefan ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN LEVEL; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EXTRACTION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMED CONSENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THALAMUS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 77958574421     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10100495     Document Type: Article

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