The Extent of Perfusion Deficit Does Not Relate to the Visibility of Acute Ischemic Lesions on Fluid-Attenuated Inversion Recovery Imaging

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 215-218

  Cheng, Bastian ^a   Rosenkranz, Michael ^a   Krützelmann, Anna ^a   Fiehler, Jens ^a   Forkert, Nils D ^a   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Thomalla, Götz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute; Diffusion weighted; Magnetic resonance imaging; Perfusion weighted; Stroke; Tissue plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; VISIBILITY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876312918     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2012.00708.x     Document Type: Article

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