A review of current imaging methods used in stroke research

Neurological Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1092-1102

  Wey, Hsiao Ying ^a,b   Desai, Virendra R ^a   Duong, Timothy Q ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral ischemia; Diffusion; Functional MRI; MRI; Perfusion; PET

Indexed keywords

1 FLUORO 3 (2 NITRO 1 IMIDAZOLYL) 2 PROPANOL; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; FLUMAZENIL;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBRAL METABOLIC RATE OF OXYGEN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXYGEN EXTRACTION FRACTION; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PH; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84887583346     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132813Y.0000000250     Document Type: Review

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