Magnetic resonance imaging of fixed post mortem brains reliably reflects subcortical vascular pathology of frontal, parietal and occipital white matter

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 485-497

  Mcaleese, K E ^a   Firbank, M ^a   Hunter, D ^a   Sun, L ^a   Hall, R ^a   Neal, J W ^b   Mann, D M A ^c   Esiri, M ^d   Jellinger, K A ^e   O'Brien, J T ^a   Attems, J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL NEUROBIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Neuropathology; post mortem; Subcortical vascular pathology; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP GRAY MATTER; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VASCULAR DISEASE; WHITE MATTER;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; POST MORTEM; SUBCORTICAL VASCULAR PATHOLOGY; WHITE MATTER LESIONS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 84880147824     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2012.01310.x     Document Type: Article

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