Measurement of the vascularity and vascular leakage of gliomas by double-echo dynamic magnetic resonance imaging: A preliminary study

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 571-576

  Uematsu, Hidemasa ^a   Maeda, Masayuki ^a   Sadato, Norihiro ^a   Ishimori, Yoshiyuki ^a   Matsuda, Tsuyoshi ^a   Koshimoto, Yoshio ^a   Kimura, Hirohiko ^a   Yamada, Hiroki ^a   Kawamura, Yasutaka ^a   Takeuchi, Hiroaki ^a   Yonekura, Yoshiharu ^a   Itoh, Harumi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Contrast media; Double echo; Gliomas; MR imaging; Vascular leakage; Vascularity

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOUBLE ECHO DYNAMIC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0036786011     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-200210000-00006     Document Type: Article

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