Intracranial vessel wall imaging at 7.0-T MRI

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2478-2484

  Van Der Kolk, Anja G ^a   Zwanenburg, Jaco J M ^a,b   Brundel, Manon ^a   Biessels, Geert Jan ^a   Visser, Fredy ^a,c   Luijten, Peter R ^a   Hendrikse, Jeroen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute stroke; intracranial disease; vessel wall

Indexed keywords

GADOBUTROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL VESSEL WALL; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TURBO SPIN ECHO SEQUENCE;

ADULT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; STROKE;

EID: 80052397815     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.620443     Document Type: Article

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