Posterior lobe of the pituitary gland: Correlation between signal intensity of T1-weighted MR images and vasopressin concentration

Radiology

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-84

  Kurokawa, Hiroaki ^a,c   Fujisawa, Ichiro ^b   Nakano, Yoshihisa ^a   Kimura, Hiroyuki ^a   Akagi, Kiyoshi ^a   Ikeda, Koshi ^a   Uokawa, Kyosuke ^a   Tanaka, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kishiwada City Hospital   (Japan)

^c Saiseikai Izuo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hormones; Magnetic resonance (MR), tissue characterization; Pituitary; Pituitary, abnormalities; Pituitary, MR

Indexed keywords

VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031972159     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.207.1.9530302     Document Type: Article

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