Measuring subtle leakage of the blood–brain barrier in cerebrovascular disease with DCE-MRI: Test–retest reproducibility and its influencing factors

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 159-166

  Wong, Sau May ^a,b   Jansen, Jacobus F A ^a,b   Zhang, C Eleana ^a,b,c   Staals, Julie ^a,c   Hofman, Paul A M ^a,b   van Oostenbrugge, Robert J ^a,b,c   Jeukens, Cécile R L P N ^a   Backes, Walter H ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

blood brain barrier; cerebrovascular disease; dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging; permeability; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

GADOBUTROL; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION STUDY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85012925190     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.25540     Document Type: Article

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