Role of neuroimaging in promoting long-term recovery from ischemic stroke

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 756-772

  Seitz, Rüdiger J ^b   Donnan, Geoffrey A ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEIDELBERG REPATRIATION HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Infarct; Perfusion diffusion mismatch; Rehabilitation; Reorganization; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSTRAINT INDUCED THERAPY; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMIC ELECTRICAL DECOUPLING; HUMAN; LESION LOCATION; LESSION PATTERN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAM; MIRROR THERAPY; MOTOR IMAGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE ASSESSMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; REPETITIVE TRAINING; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; THROMBECTOMY DEVICE; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TRACTOGRAPHY; TYPE I STROKE; TYPE II STROKE; TYPE III STROKE; TYPE IV STROKE; WHITE MATTER; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOLOGY; PERFUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; STROKE; TIME;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIFFUSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERFUSION; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952200473     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22315     Document Type: Review

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