Dynamic contrast enhancement patterns of solitary pulmonary nodules on 3D gradient-recalled echo MRI

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1380-1386

  Donmez, Fuldem Yildirim ^a,b   Yekeler, Ensar ^a   Saeidi, Violet ^a   Tunaci, Atadan ^a   Tunaci, Mehtap ^a   Acunas, Gulden ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Dynamic contrast enhancement; Gradient recalled echo sequence; MRI; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ATELECTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TUBERCULOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36448954254     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2429     Document Type: Article

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