Multi-shot echo-planar Flair imaging of brain tumors: Comparison of spin-echo T1-weighted, fast spin-echo T2-weighted, and fast spin-echo Flair imaging

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 65-72

  Tomura, Noriaki ^a   Kato, Koki ^a   Takahashi, Satoshi ^a   Sashi, Ryuji ^a   Izumi, Jun Ichi ^a   Narita, Komei ^a   Watarai, Jiro ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Echo planar imaging; Fluid attenuated inversion recovery imaging; MR imaging; Neoplasms

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BRAIN TUMORS;

ONCOLOGY;

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SCHOOL CHILD;

AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYTOMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036163536     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(01)00039-8     Document Type: Article

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