Perfusion MR imaging with a superparamagnetic iron oxide using T2- weighted and susceptibility-sensitive echoplanar sequences: Evaluation of tumor vascularity in hepatocellular carcinoma

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 207-213

  Ichikawa, Tomoaki ^a   Arbab, Ali S ^a   Araki, Tsutomu ^a   Touyama, Keiji ^a   Haradome, Hiroki ^b   Hachiya, Junichi ^b   Yamaguchi, Motoshi ^a   Kumagai, Hiroshi ^a   Aoki, Shigeki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0032965593     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.173.1.10397128     Document Type: Article

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