MS cortical lesions on DIR: Not quite what they seem?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Sethi, Varun ^a   Muhlert, Nils ^a   Ron, Maria ^a   Golay, Xavier ^a   Wheeler Kingshott, Claudia A ^a   Miller, David H ^a   Chard, Declan T ^a   Yousry, Tarek A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN SLICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOUBLE INVERSION RECOVERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHASE SENSITIVE INVERSION RECOVERY; STANDARD; WHITE MATTER;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 84892904711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078879     Document Type: Article

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