Do T2-weighted pulse sequences help with the differential diagnosis of enhancing lesions in dynamic breast MRI?

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 187-196

  Kuhl, Christiane Katharina ^a   Klaschik, Sven ^a   Mielcarek, Peter ^a   Gieseke, Jürgen ^b   Wardelmann, Eva ^a   Schild, Hans H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast cancer differential diagnosis; MRI; T2 weighted pulse sequence; Turbo spin echo imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032967038     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(199902)9:2<187::AID-JMRI6>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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