Liver imaging at 3.0 T: Diffusion-induced black-blood echo-planar imaging with large anatomic volumetric coverage as an alternative for specific absorption rate-intensive echo-train spin-echo sequences: Feasibility study

Radiology

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 264-271

  Van Den Bos, Indra C ^a   Hussain, Shahid M ^a,b   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a   Wielopolski, Piotr A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ABSORPTION; ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK BLOOD ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOLUMETRY; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 47249161179     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2481070034     Document Type: Article

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