Diffusion-weighted echo planar imaging of ovarian tumors: Is it useful to measure apparent diffusion coefficients?

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 250-256

  Katayama, Motoyuki ^a   Masui, Takayuki ^a   Kobayashi, Shigeru ^a   Ito, Tatsuhiko ^a   Sakahara, Harumi ^a   Nozaki, Atsushi ^a   Kabasawa, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a SEIREI HAMAMATSU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echo planar imaging; Ovary

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; BENIGN LESION; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; MALIGNANT LESION; OVARIAN TUMOR; OVARY; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; T1-WEIGHTED; T2 WEIGHTED;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY CYST; OVARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036124671     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200203000-00015     Document Type: Article

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