Evaluating middle cerebral artery atherosclerotic lesions in acute ischemic stroke using magnetic resonance T1-weighted 3-dimensional vessel wall imaging

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 706-711

  Natori, Tatsunori ^a   Sasaki, Makoto ^a   Miyoshi, Mitsuharu ^b   Ohba, Hideki ^a   Katsura, Noriyuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Mao ^a   Narumi, Shinsuke ^a   Kabasawa, Hiroyuki ^b   Kudo, Kohsuke ^a   Ito, Kenji ^a   Terayama, Yasuo ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; atherosclerosis; intracranial artery; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACUTE STROKE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; STROKE;

EID: 84897546384     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2013.06.025     Document Type: Article

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