Quantitative assessment of intracranial tumor response to dexamethasone using diffusion, perfusion and permeability magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 303-310

  Armitage, Paul A ^a   Schwindack, Chris ^a   Bastin, Mark E ^b   Whittle, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Glioma; Meningioma; MRI; Perfusion; Permeability

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG RESPONSE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PLASMA VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEXAMETHASONE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; PERMEABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947123217     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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