Diffusion-weighted echo-planar MRI of the brain with calculated ADCs: A useful tool in the differential diagnosis of tumor necrosis from abscess?

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 330-338

  Dorenbeck, Ulrich ^a,c   Butz, B ^a   Schlaier, J ^a   Bretschneider, T ^a   Schuierer, G ^b   Feuerbach, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Inst of Neuroradiol BKH Regensburg   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADC; Brain tumors; Cerebral abscess; Diffusion weighted imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; THALAMUS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; WHITE MATTER;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS;

EID: 0141566781     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1051228403257625     Document Type: Article

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