Retinal arteriolar geometry is associated with cerebral white matter hyperintensities on magnetic resonance imaging

International Journal of Stroke

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 434-439

  Doubal, Fergus N ^a   De Haan, Rosemarie ^b   MacGillivray, Thomas J ^a   Cohn Hokke, Petra E ^b   Dhillon, Bal ^a   Dennis, Martin S ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Factors; Ischaemic stroke; Leukoaraiosis; MRI; Risk; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; UNITED KINGDOM; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOLES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RETINAL ARTERY;

EID: 78149482320     PISSN: 17474930     EISSN: 17474949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4949.2010.00483.x     Document Type: Article

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