Effect of echo time pair selection on quantitative analysis for adrenal tumor characterization with in-phase and opposed-phase MR imaging: Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 140-147

  Schindera, Sebastian T ^a   Soher, Brian J ^a   Delong, David M ^a   Dale, Brian M ^b   Merkle, Elmar M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; LIVER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 47249091364     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2481071069     Document Type: Article

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