Whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging: Technical improvement and preliminary results

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1139-1144

  Li, Shuo ^a   Sun, Fei ^b   Jin, Zheng Yu ^a   Xue, Hua Dan ^a   Li, Ming Li ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (China)

Author keywords

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging; STIR; Tumor imaging; Whole body imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 35148820744     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21074     Document Type: Article

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