Contribution of High-b-Value Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in Determination of Brain Ischemia in Transient Ischemic Attack Patients

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-38

  Purroy, Francisco ^a   Begue, Robert ^a   Quílez, Alejandro ^a   Sanahuja, Jordi ^a   Gil, Maria Isabel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

B value; Brain imaging; Diagnosis; Diffusion weighted imaging; MRI; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; PONS; RISK FACTOR; SPEECH DISORDER; SYMPTOM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84872618756     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2011.00696.x     Document Type: Article

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