Black Blood MRI in Suspected Large Artery Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 379-383

  Pfefferkorn, Thomas ^a   Linn, Jennifer ^a   Habs, Maximilian ^a   Opherk, Christina ^a   Cyran, Clemens ^a   Ottomeyer, Caroline ^b   Straube, Andreas ^a   Dichgans, Martin ^b   Nikolaou, Konstantin ^a   Saam, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infarction; Inflammation; MRI; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK BLOOD NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY ANGIITIS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84879839901     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2012.00743.x     Document Type: Article

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