Comparison of Susceptibility Weighted Imaging and TOF-Angiography for the Detection of Thrombi in Acute Stroke

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Radbruch, Alexander ^a,b   Mucke, Johanna ^a   Schweser, Ferdinand ^c   Deistung, Andreas ^c   Ringleb, Peter Alexander ^a   Ziener, Christian Herbert ^b   Roethke, Matthias ^b   Schlemmer, Heinz Peter ^b   Heiland, Sabine ^a   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^c   Bendszus, Martin ^a   Rohde, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TIME OF FLIGHT ANGIOGRAPHY; TIME TO PEAK PERFUSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INFARCTION, POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84878129123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063459     Document Type: Article

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