MRI of Bone Tumors: Fast STIR Imaging as a Substitute for T1-Weighted Contrast-Enhanced Fat-Suppressed Spin-Echo Imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 475-481

  Tokuda, Osamu ^a   Hayashi, Noriko ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone tumor; Contrast enhanced; SDNR; SNR; STIR

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMELOBLASTOMA; ARTICLE; BONE CYST; BONE METASTASIS; BONE TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENCHONDROMA; FEMALE; FIBROMA; FIBROUS DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE AND BONES; BONE MARROW; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1842590318     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20031     Document Type: Article

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