Small hepatic lesions found on single-phase helical CT in patients with malignancy: Diagnostic capability of breath-hold, multisection fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR) MR imaging using a half-Fourier acquisition single-shot turbo spin-echo (HASTE) sequence

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 129-136

  Sasaki, Katsumi ^a   Ito, Katsuyoshi ^a   Fujita, Takeshi ^a   Shimizu, Ayame ^a   Yasui, Masayasu ^a   Hayashida, Minoru ^a   Tanabe, Masahiro ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

FLAIR HASTE; Hepatic cyst; Liver CT; Liver metastasis; Liver MR

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HALF FOURIER ACQUISITION SINGLE SHOT TURBO SPIN ECHO SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CYST; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33846205211     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20797     Document Type: Article

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