Spin-echo echo-planar MR imaging of hepatocellular carcinoma arising from chronic liver damage: Comparison with turbo spin-echo imaging

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 43-48

  Abe, Y ^a   Yamashita, Y ^a   Tang, Y ^a   Namimoto, T ^a   Nakayama, Y ^a   Takahashi, M ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echo planar imaging; Liver; MR imaging; Tumor

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY;

ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING (EPI); TURBO SPIN-ECHO (TSE) IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033965805     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(99)00037-3     Document Type: Article

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