Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Principles and Techniques

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 228-235

  Kaiser, Werner A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34848920335     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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