High-resolution MRI of basilar atherosclerosis: Three-dimensional acquisition and FLAIR sequences

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-3

  Turan, Tanya N ^a   Rumboldt, Zoran ^a   Brown, Truman R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basilar artery; Cerebral infarction; Intracranial atherosclerosis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Plaque; Pontine stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKENING; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; FLAIR SEQUENCE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84879500955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.103     Document Type: Article

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