Magnetic resonance imaging signatures of vascular pathology in multiple sclerosis

Neurological Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 780-792

  Trifan, Gabriela ^a   Sethi, Sean ^a   Elias, Saba ^a   Hewett, Joseph ^b   Feng, Wei ^c   Haacke, E Mark ^a,c,d,e,f  

^a Magnetic Resonance Innovations Inc   (United States)

^b Synergy Health Concepts   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Wayne State University   (United States)

^e Magnetic Resonance Imaging Institute for Biomedical Research   (United States)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abnormal brain iron content; Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multiple sclerosis; Vascular anatomic and flow abnormalities; Vascular pathology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IRON;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CHRONIC CEREBROSPINAL VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED THREE DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE ARTERIOVENOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; MONITORING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PHASE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; THALAMUS; TWO DIMENSIONAL TIME OF FLIGHT MAGNETIC RESONANCE VENOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

BASAL GANGLIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; THALAMUS; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84866236124     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132812Y.0000000078     Document Type: Article

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