Routine MR imaging protocol with breath-hold fast scans: Diagnostic efficacy for focal liver lesions

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 169-179

  Tanimoto, Akihiro ^a   Yuasa, Yuji ^a   Jinzaki, Masahiro ^a   Nakatsuka, Seishi ^a   Takeda, Toshiaki ^a   Kurata, Tadayoshi ^a   Shinmoto, Hiroshi ^a   Kuribayashi, Sachio ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast media, gadolinium; Liver, neoplasm; Magnetic resonance, diagnosis; Magnetic resonance, fast scan

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CYST; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CYSTS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0036657153     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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