Renal masses: Quantitative analysis of enhancement with signal intensity measurements versus qualitative analysis of enhancement with image subtraction for diagnosing malignancy at MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 232, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 373-378

  Hecht, Elizabeth M ^a   Israel, Gary M ^a   Krinsky, Glenn A ^a   Hahn, Winnie Y ^a   Kim, Danny C ^a   Belitskaya Levy, Ilana ^b   Lee, Vivian S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Images, processing; Kidney neoplasms, diagnosis; Kidney neoplasms, MR; Magnetic resonance (MR), contrast enhancement

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 3242784711     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2322031209     Document Type: Review

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