Contrast-enhanced MR imaging of the brain using T1-weighted FLAIR with BLADE compared with a conventional spin-echo sequence

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 337-342

  Naganawa, Shinji ^a   Satake, Hiroko ^a   Iwano, Shingo ^a   Kawai, Hisashi ^a   Kubota, Seiji ^a   Komada, Tomohiro ^a   Kawamura, Minako ^a   Sakurai, Yasuo ^a   Fukatsu, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

BLADE; Contrast; Flow; Magnetic resonance; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS VENOSUS;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 39049165143     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0741-8     Document Type: Article

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