The usefulness of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) for the detection of gastric cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 54, Issue 77, 2007, Pages 1378-1381

  Shinya, Satoshi ^a,b   Sasaki, Takamitsu ^a,b   Nakagawa, Yoshifumi ^a   Guiquing, Zang ^a   Yamamoto, Fumio ^a   Yamashita, Yuichi ^b  

^a Yamamoto Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ADC; DWI; Gastric cancer; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SIGNAL DETECTION; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH WALL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34547638405     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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