Intracranial plaque enhancement in patients with cerebrovascular events on high-spatial-resolution MR images

Radiology

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 534-542

  Qiao, Ye ^a   Zeiler, Steven R ^a   Mirbagheri, Saeedeh ^a   Leigh, Richard ^a   Urrutia, Victor ^a   Wityk, Robert ^a   Wasserman, Bruce A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BLACK BLOOD MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULPRIT PLAQUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACRANIAL PLAQUE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PITUITARY STALK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME OF FLIGHT MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84899581633     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13122812     Document Type: Article

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