Trigeminal neuralgia: Assessment of neurovascular decompression by 3D fast imaging employing steady-state acquisition and 3D time of flight multiple overlapping thin slab acquisition magnetic resonance imaging

Surgical Neurology International

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Prieto, Ruth ^a   Pascual, José M ^b   Yus, Miguel ^a   Jorquera, Manuela ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fast imaging employing steady state acquisition; three dimensional magnetic resonance angiography; three dimensional magnetic resonance imaging; time of flight multiple overlapping thin slab acquisition; trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION; NEUROANATOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLITEF IMPLANT; PONS ANGLE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

EID: 84865589089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21527806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2152-7806.96073     Document Type: Article

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