Diffusion imaging of human breast

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 348-352

  Englander, Sarah A ^a,b   Uluǧ, Aziz M ^a   Brem, Rachel ^a   Glickson, Jerry D ^a,b   Van Zijl, Peter C M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue; Breast; Fibroglandular tissue; MRI; Water diffusion

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; BREAST; EXOCRINE GLANDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 0031459973     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1492(199710)10:7<348::AID-NBM487>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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