Integrity of normal-appearing white matter: Influence of age, visible lesion burden and hypertension in patients with small-vessel disease

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 644-656

  Muñoz Maniega, Susana ^a   Chappell, Francesca M ^a   Valdés Hernández, Maria C ^a   Armitage, Paul A ^b   Makin, Stephen D ^a   Heye, Anna K ^a   Thrippleton, Michael J ^a   Sakka, Eleni ^a   Shuler, Kirsten ^a   Dennis, Martin S ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ageing; blood brain barrier; cerebrovascular disease; diffusion tensor imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GADOTERATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE PRESSURE; SMOKING; STROKE PATIENT; TISSUE INTERACTION; WATER CONTENT; WHITE MATTER; AGING; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VASCULAR DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANISOTROPY; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; VASCULAR DISEASES; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 85009932449     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0271678X16635657     Document Type: Article

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