3 Tesla MRI detects accelerated hippocampal volume reduction in postmenopausal women

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-53

  Goto, Masami ^a,b   Abe, Osamu ^a   Miyati, Tosiaki ^b   Inano, Sachiko ^a   Hayashi, Naoto ^a   Aoki, Shigeki ^c   Mori, Harushi ^a   Kabasawa, Hiroyuki ^d   Ino, Kenji ^a   Yano, Keiichi ^a   Iida, Kyouhito ^a   Mima, Kazuo ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GE HealthCare Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

central nervous system; estrogen; hippocampus; magnetic resonance imaging; menopause; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POSTMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 78650645680     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22328     Document Type: Article

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