Echo-train STIR MRI of the liver: Comparison of breath-hold and non- breath-hold imaging strategies

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-92

  Earls, James P ^b   Rofsky, Neil M ^a   DeCorato, Douglas R ^a   Krinsky, Glenn A ^a   Weinreb, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Inversion recovery; Liver MRI; Liver neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ARTIFACTS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032928635     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(199901)9:1<87::AID-JMRI12>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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