A Comparison of CT/CT Angiography and MRI/MR Angiography for Imaging of Vertebrobasilar Dolichoectasia

Clinical Neuroradiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 347-353

  Forster A ^a   Ssozi, J ^a   Al Zghloul, M ^a   Brockmann, M A ^a,b   Kerl, H U ^a   Groden, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; CTA; Dolichoectasia; MRI; TOF MRA; Vertebrobasilar

Indexed keywords

HEMOSIDERIN; IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN STEM EDEMA; BRAIN STEM INJURY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME OF FLIGHT MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR DOLICHOECTASIA; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84912011077     PISSN: 18691439     EISSN: 18691447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00062-013-0261-7     Document Type: Article

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