The Rotterdam Scan Study: Design and update up to 2012

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 811-824

  Ikram, M Arfan ^a   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,b   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a   Koudstaal, Peter J ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Breteler, Monique M B ^a,c   Vernooij, Meike W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cerebral blood flow; Cohort study; Dementia; Diffusion tensor imaging; Epidemiology; Genetics; Infarcts; Microbleeds; Neuroimaging; Population based; Risk factors; Stroke; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TUMOR; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBRAL MICROBLEED; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE MARKER; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LACUNAR INFARCT; MICROANGIOPATHY; NETHERLANDS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY TUMOR; RISK FACTOR; SMALL VESSEL DISEASE; SMOKING; STANDARDIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER ATROPHY; WHITE MATTER LESION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NETHERLANDS; NEUROIMAGING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 82655172891     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-011-9624-z     Document Type: Article

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