Myelin water imaging reflects clinical variability in multiple sclerosis

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 263-270

  Kolind, Shannon ^a,b   Matthews, Lucy ^a   Johansen Berg, Heidi ^a   Leite, M Isabel ^a   Williams, Steven C R ^b   Deoni, Sean ^b,c   Palace, Jackie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Multi component relaxation; Multiple sclerosis (MS); Myelin water imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELIN SHEATH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 84863411998     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.070     Document Type: Article

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