Usefulness of diffusion-weighted MRI with echo-planar technique in the evaluation of cellularity in gliomas

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-60

  Sugahara, Takeshi ^a   Korogi, Yukunori ^a   Kochi, Masato ^a   Ikushima, Ichiro ^a   Shigematu, Yoshinori ^a   Hirai, Toshinori ^a   Okuda, Tomoko ^a   Liang, Luxia ^a   Ge, Yulin ^a   Komohara, Yasuyuki ^a   Ushio, Yukitaka ^a   Takahashi, Mutsumasa ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted MRI; Echo planar technique; Gliomas; T2 weighted images; Tumor cellularity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032904225     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(199901)9:1<53::AID-JMRI7>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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