Double inversion recovery sequence of the cervical spinal cord in multiple sclerosis and related inflammatory diseases

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 219-225

  Riederer, Isabelle ^a   Karampinos, D C ^a   Settles, M ^a   Preibisch, C ^a   Bauer, J S ^a   Kleine, J F ^a   Muhlau M ^a   Zimmer, C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DOUBLE INVERSION RECOVERY SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; NEURORADIOLOGIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOLOGIST; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84920971196     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A4093     Document Type: Article

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