Gadolinium-enhanced echo-planar T2-weighted MRI of tumors in the extracranial head and neck: Feasibility study and preliminary results using a distributed-parameter tracer kinetic analysis

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 963-969

  Bisdas, Sotirios ^a   Baghi, Mehran ^a   Wagenblast, Jens ^a   Vogl, Thomas J ^a   Choon, Hua Thng ^b   Tong, San Koh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Distributed parameter tracer kinetic model; Head and neck tumors; Perfusion weighted MRI

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; TRACER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KINETICS; LARYNX CANCER; MALE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VALIDATION STUDY; WARTHIN TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 42949169922     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21311     Document Type: Article

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