Relationship between apparent diffusion coefficient and signal intensity in endometrial and other pelvic cysts

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 463-470

  Moteki, Takao ^a   Horikoshi, Hiroyuki ^b   Endo, Keigo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Gunma Cancer Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood; Cyst; Diffusion imaging; Fast MR imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYST; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CYSTS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ENDOMETRIUM; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCELE; MESENTERIC CYST; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN CYSTS; PELVIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 0036660719     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(02)00524-6     Document Type: Article

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