Magnetic resonance 4D flow characteristics of cerebrospinal fluid at the craniocervical junction and the cervical spinal canal

European Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1788-1796

  Bunck, Alexander C ^a   Kröger, Jan Robert ^a   Jüttner, Alena ^a   Brentrup, Angela ^a   Fiedler, Barbara ^a   Schaarschmidt, Frank ^b   Crelier, Gerard R ^c   Schwindt, Wolfram ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Niederstadt, Thomas ^a   Maintz, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Cervical canal stenosis; Chiari malformation; Flow sensitive 4D MRI; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SYSTOLE; VERTEBRAL CANAL; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL STENOSIS; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 80052654098     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2105-7     Document Type: Article

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