Fast fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR) MRI in the assessment of intraaxial brain tumors

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 789-798

  Essig, Macro ^a   Hawighorst, Hans ^a   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^a   Engenhart Cabillic, Rita ^b   Fuss, Martin ^b   Debus, Juergen ^b   Zuna, Ivan ^a   Knopp, Michael V ^a   Van Kaick, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum ^*

Author keywords

Cerebral gliomas; Fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR); Multireader analysis; Qualitative analyses; Quantitative analyses

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FAST FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 0031852819     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880080407     Document Type: Article

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