Detection of Lipid in Abdominal Tissues with Opposed-Phase Gradient-Echo Images at 1.5 T: Techniques and Diagnostic Importance

Radiographics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1465-1480

  Outwater, Eric K ^a   Blasbalg, Roberto ^a   Siegelman, Evan S ^b   Vala, Marc ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Adrenal gland, neoplasms, 86.30; Fat, MR; Kidney neoplasms, MR, 81.30, 81.121412, 81.121415; Liver neoplasms, MR, 761.30, 761.121412, 761.121415; Liver, fatty, 761.50; Magnetic resonance (MR), fat suppression, **.1214152

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL TUMOR; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIPIDS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 0032197577     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.18.6.9821195     Document Type: Article

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