Small hepatocellular carcinomas in cirrhosis: differences in contrast enhancement effects between helical CT and MR imaging during multiphasic dynamic imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-71

  Hayashida, Minoru ^a   Ito, Katsuyoshi ^a   Fujita, Takeshi ^a   Shimizu, Ayame ^a   Sasaki, Katsumi ^a   Tanabe, Masahiro ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamic CT; Dynamic MR imaging; Hepatocellular carcinoma

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL; IOPAMIDOL; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER SURGERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 37349016851     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.04.007     Document Type: Article

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