Contrast-enhanced T1-weighted Fluid-attenuated Inversion-recovery BLADE Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain. An Alternative to Spin-echo Technique for Detection of Brain Lesions in the Unsedated Pediatric Patient?

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 986-995

  Alibek, Sedat ^a   Adamietz, Boris ^a   Cavallaro, Alexander ^a   Stemmer, Alto ^b   Anders, Katharina ^a   Kramer, Manuel ^a   Bautz, Werner ^a   Staatz, Gundula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

brain; MRI; pediatric

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIODICALLY ROTATED OVERLAPPING PARALLEL LINES WITH ENHANCED RECONSTRUCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEDATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 46649083409     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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