Optimal multi-phase three-dimensional fast imaging with steady-state free precession dynamic MRI and its clinical application to the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 111-119

  Shinozaki, Kenji ^a   Honda, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshimitsu, Kengo ^a   Taguchi, Ken ichi ^a   Kuroiwa, Toshiro ^a   Irie, Hiroyuki ^a   Aibe, Hitoshi ^a   Nishie, Akihiro ^a   Nakayama, Tomohiro ^a   Shimada, Mitsuo ^a   Masuda, Kouji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver; Magnetic resonance imaging; Phantom; Three dimensional image

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL FAST IMAGING WITH STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL FAST LOW ANGLE SHOT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMAN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; HUMANS;

EID: 0036322218     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Dynamic sequential MR imaging of focal liver lesions: Initial experience in 22 patients at 1.5 T
2. Differential diagnosis of focal liver lesions: Role of spin-echo and contrast-enhanced dynamic MR imaging
3. Liver tumors: Comparison of MR imaging with Gd-EOB-DTPA and Gd-DTPA
4. Contrast-enhancement of small hepatocellular carcinoma: Usefulness of three successive early image acquisitions during multiphase dynamic MR imaging
5. Detection of hepatocellular carcinoma arising in cirrhotic livers: Comparison of gadolinium- and ferumoxides-enhanced MR imaging
6. Correlation of three-dimensional gradient echo dynamic MR imaging with CT during hepatic arteriography in patients with hypervascular hepatocellular carcinomas: Preliminary clinical experience
7. MR diagnosis of hepatic metastasis from neuroendocrine tumors versus hemangiomas: Relative merits of dynamic gadolinium chelate-enhanced gradient-recalled echo and unenhanced spin-echo images
8. Small hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with chronic liver damage: Prospective comparison of detection with dynamic MR imaging and helical CT of the whole liver
9. Small hepatocellular carcinoma on magnetic resonance imaging. Relation of signal intensity to angiographic and clinicopathologic findings
10. Three-dimensional gradient-echo imaging with double dose Gadolinium enhancement as a pulse sequence for dynamic study on the whole liver: Phantom study
11. Safety aspect of magnetic resonance imaging
12. Transcatheter arterial embolization for hepatocellular carcinoma. Benefits and limitations for unresectable cases with liver cirrhosis evaluated by comparison with other conservative treatments
13. Therapeutic ethanol injection of hepatocellular carcinomas undetectable by angiography and Lipiodol computed tomography
14. Hepatic arterial-phase dynamic gadolinium-enhanced MR imaging: Optimization with a test examination and a power injector
15. Gadolinium-enhanced arterial phase MR imaging of hypervascular liver tumors: Comparison between tailored and fixed scanning delays in the same patients
16. Malignant lesions of the liver with high signal intensity on T1-weighted MR images
17. MR imaging of small hepatocellular carcinoma: Effect of intratumoral copper content on signal intensity