Contrast-enhanced MR imaging of metastatic brain tumor at 3 Tesla: Utility of T1-weighted SPACE compared with 2D spin echo and 3D gradient echo sequence

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-21

  Komada, Tomohiro ^a   Naganawa, Shinji ^a   Ogawa, Hiroshi ^a   Matsushima, Masaya ^a   Kubota, Seiji ^a   Kawai, Hisashi ^a   Fukatsu, Hiroshi ^a   Ikeda, Mitsuru ^b   Kawamura, Minako ^a   Sakurai, Yasuo ^a   Maruyama, Katsuya ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; Brain metastases; Contrast; Variable flip angle

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 52649094972     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.7.13     Document Type: Article

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