Brain iron deposition in essential tremor: A quantitative 3-tesla magnetic resonance imaging study

Movement Disorders

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 196-200

  Novellino, Fabiana ^a   Cherubini, Andrea ^a   Chiriaco, Carmelina ^a   Morelli, Maurizio ^b   Salsone, Maria ^b   Arabia, Gennarina ^b   Quattrone, Aldo ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

relaxometry; Essential tremor; Iron; Pallidum; T2

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123; IRON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RELAXOMETRY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DENTATE GYRUS; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TROPANES;

EID: 84874210592     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25263     Document Type: Article

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