Comparison between signal-to-noise ratio, liver-to-muscle ratio, and 1/T2 for the noninvasive assessment of liver iron content by MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 589-592

  Fenzi, Alberto ^a   Bortolazzi, Mirko ^a   Marzola, Pasquina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Iron; Liver; MRI; R2; SNR; T2

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIET; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IRON OVERLOAD; IRON STORAGE; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IRON; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0037964274     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.10306     Document Type: Article

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