Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease and its contribution to ageing and neurodegeneration

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 822-838

  Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a,b   Smith, Eric E ^c   Biessels, Geert J ^d   Cordonnier, Charlotte ^e   Fazekas, Franz ^f   Frayne, Richard ^c   Lindley, Richard I ^g   O'Brien, John T ^h   Barkhof, Frederik ⁱ   Benavente, Oscar R ^j   Black, Sandra E ^k   Brayne, Carol ^l   Breteler, Monique ^m   Chabriat, Hugues ⁿ   DeCarli, Charles ^o   de Leeuw, Frank Erik ^p   Doubal, Fergus ^a   Duering, Marco ^q   Fox, Nick C ^r   Greenberg, Steven ^s   Hachinski, Vladimir ^t   Kilimann, Ingo ^m   Mok, Vincent ^u   Oostenbrugge, Robert van ^v   Pantoni, Leonardo ^w   Speck, Oliver ^x   Stephan, Blossom C M ^y   Teipel, Stefan ^m   Viswanathan, Anand ^s   Werring, David ^r   Chen, Christopher ^z   Smith, Colin ^b   van Buchem, Mark ^aa   Norrving, Bo ^ab   Gorelick, Philip B ^ac   Dichgans, Martin ^g,ad   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^k SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^m GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

ⁿ INSERM   (France)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^q LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^s MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^u CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^v MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^w CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^x Institute for Experimental Physics   (Germany)

^y NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^z NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^aa LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^ab LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^ac Saint Mary's Health Care   (United States)

^ad Germany 3 Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION;

AGING; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROIMAGING; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84880391350     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: 14744465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(13)70124-8     Document Type: Review

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