Detecting cortical lesions in multiple sclerosis at 7 T using white matter signal attenuation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 907-915

  Bluestein, Katharine T ^a   Pitt, David ^a   Sammet, Steffen ^a   Zachariah, Cherian Renil ^a   Nagaraj, Usha ^a   Knopp, Michael V ^a   Schmalbrock, Petra ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

7 T; Cortical lesions; MRI; Optimization; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER SIGNAL ATTENUATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864013329     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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