Gradient echo magnetic resonance imaging correlates with clinical measures and allows visualization of veins within multiple sclerosis lesions

Multiple Sclerosis Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 349-355

  Luo, Jie ^a   Yablonskiy, Dmitriy A ^a   Hildebolt, Charles F ^a   Lancia, Samantha ^b   Cross, Anne H ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CNS white matter; MS clinical subtypes; Multiple Sclerosis; perivascular cuffs; quantitative MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; GRADIENT ECHO PLURAL CONTRAST IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE INJURY; VEIN; VEIN DISEASE; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; LESION LOAD; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITE 2; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITE 3; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE ASSESSMENT; PACED AUDITORY SERIAL ADDITION TEST; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; SYMBOL DIGITAL MODALITY TEST; TISSUE DAMAGE LOAD; WHITE MATTER LESION;

CNS WHITE MATTER; MS CLINICAL SUBTYPES; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PERIVASCULAR CUFFS; QUANTITATIVE MRI;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; VEINS;

EID: 84895755020     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: 14770970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458513495935     Document Type: Article

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