Role of EPI-FLAIR in patients with acute stroke: a comparative analysis with FLAIR

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 878-883

  Meshksar, A ^a   Villablanca, J P ^b   Khan, R ^a   Carmody, R ^a   Coull, B ^a   Nael, Kambiz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY SEQUENCE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ACQUISITION TIME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL INTENSITY RATIO; TIME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE;

EID: 84901044888     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3786     Document Type: Article

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