Increased-contrast, high-spatial-resolution, diffusion-weighted, spin-echo, echo-planar imaging

Radiology

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 253-259

  Thompson, Michael R ^a   Venkatesan, Ramesh ^a   Kuppusamy, Karthik ^a   Celik, Azim ^a   Lin Weili, ^a   Kido, Daniel K ^a   Mark Haacke, E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

10.121416; 10.12144; Brain; Magnetic resonance (mr); MR; Technology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE;

EID: 0032899170     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.210.1.r99ja25253     Document Type: Article

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