Diffusion-weighted echo-planar MR imaging: Clinical applications and pitfalls. A pictorial essay

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 181-192

  Moritani, Toshio ^a   Shrier, David A ^a   Numaguchi, Yuji ^a   Takase, Yukinori ^a   Takahashi, Chichiro ^a   Wang, Henry Z ^a   Shibata, Dean K ^a   Abe, Takumi ^b   Ukisu, Ryutarou ^b   Ohgiya, Yoshimitu ^b   Tsuchiya, Atsurou ^b   Kushihashi, Tamio ^b   Gokan, Takchiko ^b   Munechika, Hirotsugu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffuse weighted; Magnetic Resonance

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; DEMYELINATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; MALE; MYELIN DEFICIENCY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS;

EID: 0034466791     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(00)00203-5     Document Type: Review

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