Vascular Imaging in Stroke: Comparative Analysis

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 340-348

  Barlinn, Kristian ^a,b   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotid duplex; CTA; DSA; MRA; Stroke; TCD; Vascular imaging

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE; ULTRASOUND;

BLOOD VESSELS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 79960883479     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: 18787479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-011-0042-4     Document Type: Review

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