Clinical usefulness of the visibility of the transcerebral veins at 3T on T2*-weighted sequence in acute stroke patients

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1282-1287

  Rosso, Charlotte ^a   Belleville, Martin ^a   Pires, Christine ^a   Dormont, Didier ^a   Crozier, Sophie ^a   Chiras, Jacques ^a   Samson, Yves ^a   Bonneville, Fabrice ^b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Service de Neuroradiologie   (France)

Author keywords

imaging; MRI; Stroke; T2

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VEIN; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISIBILITY;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; VEINS;

EID: 84860718915     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.03.025     Document Type: Article

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