Presence of a central vein within white matter lesions on susceptibility weighted imaging: A specific finding for multiple sclerosis?

Neuroradiology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 311-317

  Lummel, Nina ^a   Boeckh Behrens, Tobias ^a   Schoepf, Veronika ^a,b   Burke, Michael ^c   Brückmann, Hartmut ^a   Linn, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (Germany)

Author keywords

FLAIR; Fluid attenuated inversion recovery sequence; MRI; Multiple sclerosis; Susceptibility weighted angiography; SWAN

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHIC WHITE MATTER LESION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED ANGIOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VEINS;

EID: 79955684861     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-010-0736-z     Document Type: Article

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