Forensic application of postmortem diffusion-weighted and diffusion tensor MR imaging of the human brain in situ

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1518-1524

  Scheurer, Eva ^a,b,c   Lovblad, K O ^d,e   Kreis, R ^c   Maier, S E ^f   Boesch, C ^c   Dirnhofer, R ^c   Yen, K ^a,b,c  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HEART FAILURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052873251     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2508     Document Type: Article

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