Comparison of Conventional Fast Spin Echo, Single-Shot Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Half-Fourier RARE for T2-Weighted Female Pelvic Imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-355

  Sugimura, Hiroshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Kenichiro ^a   Furukoji, Eiji ^a   Tamura, Shozo ^a   Sakae, Tatefumi ^a   Koga, Haruyuki ^a   Machida, Yoshio ^b   Kitane, Shinichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fast imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Partial Fourier imaging; Pelvis; Three dimensional imaging

Indexed keywords

SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FAST SPIN ECHO; FEMALE; HALF FOURIER RARE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTION; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN CYSTS; PELVIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 1542319077     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20010     Document Type: Article

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