Dual double arterial phase dynamic MR imaging with sensitivity encoding (SENSE): Which is better for diagnosing hypervascular hepatocellular carcinomas, in-phase or opposed-phase imaging?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 361-367

  Yoshioka, Hiroshi ^a,b   Sato, Jiro ^a   Takahashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Lou, Douqiang ^a   Yamaguchi, Masayuki ^a   Saida, Yukihisa ^a   Itai, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; In phase; MRI; Opposed phase; Parallel imaging; SENSE

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ILEX COOKII;

EID: 1942516886     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2004.01.010     Document Type: Article

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