Consensus recommendations for MS cortical lesion scoring using double inversion recovery MRI

Neurology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 418-424

  Geurts, J J G ^a,b   Roosendaal, S D ^a   Calabrese, M ^d   Ciccarelli, O ^e   Agosta, F ^f   Chard, D T ^e   Gass, A ^g   Huerga, E ^h   Moraal, B ^a   Pareto, D ^h   Rocca, M A ^f   Wattjes, M P ^a   Yousry, T A ^e   Uitdehaag, B M J ^c   Barkhof, F ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Division of Clinical Neuroscience   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Neurology ^*  (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^h HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE INVERSION RECOVERY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 79951483580     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31820a0cc4     Document Type: Article

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