Clinical usefulness of diffusion-weighted imaging using low and high b-values to detect rectal cancer

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 173-177

  Hosonuma, Tomonori ^a   Tozaki, Mitsuhiro ^a   Ichiba, Noriatsu ^a   Sakuma, Tohru ^a   Hayashi, Daichi ^a   Yanaga, Katsuhiko ^a   Fukuda, Kunihiko ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted images; Low and high b value; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM; RECTUM TUMOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34249721029     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.5.173     Document Type: Article

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