3D MR cisternography to identify distal dural rings: Comparison of 3D-CISS and 3D-SPACE sequences

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-32

  Watanabe, Yoshiyuki ^a,b   Makidono, Akari ^b   Nakamura, Miho ^b   Saida, Yukihisa ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain aneurysm; Cisternography; Distal dural ring; SPACE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAVERNOUS SINUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SKULL BASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAVERNOUS SINUS; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SKULL BASE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79960964099     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.10.29     Document Type: Article

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