Performance assessment of phased-array coil in breast MR imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-43

  Ikeda, Takayuki ^a   Monzawa, Shuichi ^a   Komoto, Kyoko ^a   Aso, Eiji ^a   Saito, Yasuhiro ^a   Maeda, Tetsuo ^a   Sakamoto, Takeshige ^a   Adachi, Shuji ^a  

^a HYOGO MEDICAL CENTER FOR ADULTS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast; Coil; Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BREAST DISEASES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 24344485184     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.3.39     Document Type: Article

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