Lung MRI at 1.5 and 3 Tesla: Observer preference study and lesion contrast using five different pulse sequences

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 377-383

  Fink, Christian ^a,d   Puderbach, Michael ^b   Biederer, Juergen ^b,c   Fabel, Michael ^b   Dietrich, Olaf ^a   Kauczor, Hans Ulrich ^b   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Schönberg, Stefan O ^a,d  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 T; High field; Lung; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pneumonia; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST;

EID: 34249005206     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000261926.86278.96     Document Type: Article

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