Comparison of multishot echo-planar fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery imaging with fast spin-echo fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery and T2-weighted imaging in depiction of white matter lesions

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 810-814

  Tomura, Noriaki ^a   Kato, Koki ^a   Takahashi, Satoshi ^a   Sashi, Ryuji ^a   Sakuma, Ikuo ^a   Narita, Komei ^a   Watarai, Jiro ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain, white matter; FLAIR; MR, echo planar

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; RECOVERY; SPIN POLARIZATION;

BRAIN, WHITE MATTER; FAST SPIN ECHOS; FLAIR; FLUID-ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERIES; FLUID-ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; MR, ECHO-PLANAR; MULTI-SHOT; T2-WEIGHTED IMAGING; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESIONS;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0036760532     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200209000-00024     Document Type: Article

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