Single breath-hold diffusion-weighted MRI of the liver with parallel imaging: initial experience

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 959-965

  Oner, A Y ^a   Celik, H ^a   Oktar, S O ^a   Tali, T ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVER CYST; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER INJURY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33749041906     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.06.014     Document Type: Article

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