Cortical lesion load correlates with diffuse injury of multiple sclerosis normal appearing white matter

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 227-233

  Mistry, Niraj ^a   Abdel Fahim, Rasha ^a   Mougin, Olivier ^a   Tench, Christopher ^a   Gowland, Penny ^a   Evangelou, Nikos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cortical; grey matter; MRI; Multiple sclerosis; normal appearing white matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETISATION PREPARED RAPIDC ACQUISITION GRADIENT ECHO; MAGNETISATION TRANSFER RATIO; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; WHITE MATTER;

CORTICAL; GREY MATTER; MRI; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORMAL APPEARING WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 84893560516     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: 14770970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458513496344     Document Type: Article

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