Correlation of MR perfusion imaging and vessel tortuosity parameters in assessment of intracranial neoplasms

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 585-590

  Parikh, Anup H ^a   Smith, J Keith ^a   Ewend, Matthew G ^a   Bullitt, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN TUMOR; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 11144329022     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460400300608     Document Type: Article

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