Diffusion-weighted MRI sequences (DW-MRI) of the kidney: Normal findings, influence of hydration state and repeatability of results;Coefficiente di diffusione renale in RM: Reperti normali, influenza dello stato di idratazione e ripetibilità dei risultati

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 214-224

  Damasio, M B ^a   Tagliafico, A ^a   Capaccio, E ^a   Cancelli, C ^a   Perrone, N ^a   Tomolillo, C ^a   Pontremoli, R ^a   Derchi, L E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Kidney; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDRATION; KIDNEY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SINGLE SHOT SPIN ECHO ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; SODIUM EXCRETION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINE OSMOLALITY;

ADULT; DEHYDRATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; URINE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 43449134073     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-008-0248-7     Document Type: Article

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