MRI of liver metastases: Limitation of spleen-liver model in optimizing pulse sequences

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 369-372

  Turkenburg, Jeroen L ^a   Pijl, Milan E J ^a   Van Persijn Van Meerten, Els L ^a   Hermans, Jo ^a   Bloem, Johan L ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Liver; Liver metastases; Magnetic resonance (MR); Pulse sequences; Spleen

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELING;

ADULT; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPLEEN;

EID: 0032935322     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(199903)9:3<369::AID-JMRI1>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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