MRI of the lung: Value of different turbo spin-echo, single-shot turbo spin-echo, and 3D gradient-echo pulse sequences for the detection of pulmonary metastases

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-81

  Bruegel, Melanie ^a   Gaa, Jochen ^a   Woertler, Klaus ^a   Ganter, Carl ^a   Waldt, Simone ^a   Hillerer, Claudia ^a   Rummeny, Ernst J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Lung; MR pulse sequences; MRI; Pulmonary metastases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HALF FOURIER SINGLE SHOT TURBO SPIN ECHO SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVERSION RECOVERY HALF FOURIER SINGLE SHOT TURBO SPIN ECHO SEQUENCE; LUNG INJURY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT TAU INVERSION RECOVERY SEQUENCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TECHNIQUE; TRIGGERED SHORT TAU INVERSION RECOVERY SEQUENCE; TURBO SPIN ECHO SEQUENCE; VOLUMETRIC INTERPOLATED THREE DIMENSIONAL GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846248380     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20824     Document Type: Article

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