No evidence of microbleeds in ALS patients at 7 Tesla MRI

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 555-557

  Verstraete, Esther ^a   Biessels, Geert Jan ^a   Van Den Heuvel, Martijn P ^a   Visser, Fredy ^b,c   Luijten, Peter R ^b   Van Den Berg, Leonard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Blood brain barrier; Microbleeds; Motor neuron disease

Indexed keywords

HEMOSIDERIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD SPINAL CORD BARRIER; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HEMOSIDERIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 78649366182     PISSN: 17482968     EISSN: 1471180X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17482968.2010.513053     Document Type: Article

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