Diffusion coefficients in abdominal organs and hepatic lesions: Evaluation with intravoxel incoherent motion echo-planar MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 617-623

  Yamada, Ichiro ^a   Aung, Winn ^a   Himeno, Yoshiro ^a   Nakagawa, Tsuneaki ^a   Shibuya, Hitoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liver neoplasms, diagnosis; Liver neoplasms, MR; Magnetic resonance (MR), diffusion study; Magnetic resonance (MR), echo planar; Magnetic resonance (MR), technology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0032975435     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.210.3.r99fe17617     Document Type: Article

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