Gliomas: Histopathologic evaluation of changes in directionality and magnitude of water diffusion at diffusion-tensor MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 240, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 803-810

  Stadlbauer, Andreas ^a,b   Ganslandt, Oliver ^a   Buslei, Rolf ^a   Hammen, Thilo ^a   Gruber, Stephan ^c   Moser, Ewald ^c   Buchfelder, Michael ^a   Salomonowitz, Erich ^b   Nimsky, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Landesklinikum St Poelten ^*  (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INFILTRATION; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33747596449     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2403050937     Document Type: Article

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