Opposed phase imaging in lumbar disc disease: An option providing faster image acquisition times

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1578-1584

  Yagmurlu, Banu ^a,b   Erden, Ilhan ^a   Tanju, Sumru ^a   Gene, Yasemin ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Disc disease; Lumbar vertebrae; Magnetic resonance imaging; Opposed phase imaging; Spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPHYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 37349049282     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21180     Document Type: Article

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