Whole-body MRI for detecting metastatic bone tumor: Diagnostic value of diffusion-weighted images

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 147-155

  Nakanishi, Katsuyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Midori ^a   Nakaguchi, Kazunori ^a   Kyakuno, Miyaji ^a   Hashimoto, Nobuyuki ^b   Onishi, Hiromitsu ^c   Maeda, Noboru ^c   Nakata, Saki ^d   Kuwabara, Masatomo ^e   Murakami, Takamichi ^e   Nakamura, Hironobu ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOYONAKA MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone metastasis; Diffusion weighted images; Whole body MRI

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID TUMOR; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 39549113737     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.6.147     Document Type: Article

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