Dynamic MR mammography: Three-dimensional real-time visualization of contrast enhancement in virtual reality

Academic Radiology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1255-1263

  Hellwig, Gesine ^a,b   Brix, Gunnar ^b   Griebel, Jürgen ^b   Lucht, Robert ^b   Delorme, Stefan ^c   Siebert, Markus ^a   Englmeier, Karl Hans ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Radiation Hygiene   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms, MR; Breast, MR; Magnetic resonance (MR), contrast enhancement; Magnetic resonance (MR), image display; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0036840796     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)80559-7     Document Type: Article

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