Experimental study of inflammatory and metastatic lymph nodes with diffusion weighted imaging on animal model: Comparison with conventional methods

Chinese Medical Sciences Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 166-171

  Xue, Hua Dan ^a   Li, Shuo ^a   Sun, Hong Yi ^a   Jin, Zheng Yu ^a   Sun, Fei ^b  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b General Electric Medical Solution   (China)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Lymph node; Magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 55049095212     PISSN: 10019294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-9294(09)60033-X     Document Type: Article

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