MR hysterosalpingography: Protocol development and refinement for simulating normal and abnormal fallopian tube patency - Feasibility study with a phantom

Radiology

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-112

  Frye, Richard E ^a   Ascher, Susan M ^a   Thomasson, David ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fallopian tubes, MR; Fallopian tubes, stenosis or obstruction; Magnetic resonance (MR), experimental studies; Magnetic resonance (MR), half Fourier imaging; Magnetic resonance (MR), rapid imaging; Phantoms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SIMULATION; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE;

EID: 0033970776     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.214.1.r00ja42107     Document Type: Article

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