## Abstract A group of 70 professional divers and 47 healthy control subjects who had never dived were examined with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to determine the prevalence of focal white matter changes in the brain. Spots of high signal intensity in white matter on proton density‐and/or T2‐wei
Diffusion MR imaging of the central nervous system: clinical applications [in French]
✍ Scribed by M. Hamon; O. Coskun; P. Courthéoux; J. Théron; L. Leclerc
- Book ID
- 113542392
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 59 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0899-7071
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