Contrast-enhanced multi-shot echo-planar FLAIR in the depiction of metastatic tumors of the brain: Comparison with contrast-enhanced spin-echo T1-weighted imaging

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1032-1037

  Tomura, N ^a   Narita, K ^a   Takahashi, S ^a   Otani, T ^a   Sakuma, I ^a   Yasuda, K ^a   Nishii, T ^a   Watarai, J ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Echo planar imaging; FLAIR; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PATIENT MONITORING;

BRAIN METASTASES; BRAIN TUMORS; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FAST FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY (FLAIR);

TUMORS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GADODIAMIDE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ROC CURVE;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE;

EID: 35648972309     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841850701499425     Document Type: Article

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