Relationship between contrast enhancement on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery MR sequences and signal intensity on T2-weighted MR images: Visual evaluation of brain tumors

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 694-700

  Kubota, Takao ^a   Yamada, Kei ^a   Kizu, Osamu ^a   Hirota, Tatsuya ^a   Ito, Hirotoshi ^a   Ishihara, Kiyoshi ^b   Nishimura, Tsunehiko ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Maizuru National Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Contrast enhancement; FLAIR; MR imaging; T2 relaxation time

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; T1 WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; T2 WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 20044371213     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20331     Document Type: Article

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