Clinical value of black-blood high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging for intracranial atherosclerotic plaques

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 231-236

  Yang, Haiqing ^a   Zhu, Yifei ^a   Geng, Zuojun ^a   Li, Caiying ^a   Zhou, Lixia ^a   Liu, Qi ^a  

^a HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Black blood; Bright blood; Intracranial atherosclerosis; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLACK BLOOD HIGH RESOLUTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC PLAQUE ASSAY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84929623713     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2015.2469     Document Type: Article

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