Contrast-enhanced FLAIR imaging in combination with pre- and postcontrast magnetization transfer T1-weighted imaging: Usefulness in the evaluation of brain metastases

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 479-487

  Terae, Satoshi ^a   Yoshida, Daisuke ^a   Kudo, Kohsuke ^a   Tha, Khin Khin ^a   Fujino, Masaharu ^a   Miyasaka, Kazuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Contrast enhancement; Fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging; Magnetic resonance (MR); Magnetization transfer; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CONTRAST MEDIA; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GADOLINIUM DTPA; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ROC CURVE;

EID: 33847669252     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20847     Document Type: Article

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