White matter lesion contrast in fast spin-echo fluid-attenuated inversion recovery imaging: Effect of varying effective echo time and echo train length

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1091-1096

  Barboriak, Daniel P ^a   Provenzale, James M ^a   MacFall, James R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0032842904     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.173.4.10511185     Document Type: Article

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