Leucoencephalopathy with brainstem and spinal cord involvement and high lactate: Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3333-3341

  Steenweg, Marianne E ^a   Pouwels, Petra J W ^a   Wolf, Nicole I ^a   Van Wieringen, Wessel N ^a,b   Barkhof, Frederik ^a   Van Der Knaap, Marjo S ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

chemical shift imaging; diffusion tensor imaging; MRI; white matter disorder

Indexed keywords

INOSITOL; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTROSCOPY; SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 81055125107     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr254     Document Type: Article

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