Accuracy of liver fat quantification at MR imaging: Comparison of out-of-phase gradient-echo and fat-saturated fast spin-echo techniques - Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 507-511

  Qayyum, Aliya ^a   Coh, Jeffrey S ^a,b   Kakar, Sanjay ^a   Yeh, Benjamin M ^a   Merriman, Raphael B ^a   Coakley, Fergus V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FAT SATURATED FAST SPIN ECHO MAGNETIC RESONANCE; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUT OF PHASE GRADIENT ECHO MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 27144532730     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2372040539     Document Type: Article

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