Vessel tortuosity and brain tumor malignancy: A blinded study

Academic Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1232-1240

  Bullitt, Elizabeth ^a   Zeng, Donglin ^b   Gerig, Guido ^c   Aylward, Stephen ^a   Joshi, Sarang ^a   Smith, J Keith ^a   Lin, Weili ^a   Ewend, Matthew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Brain tumor; Cancer; Computer; MRA; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BENIGN TUMOR; BLEEDING DISORDER; BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 25144506525     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2005.05.027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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