Diagnosis of hepatic metastasis: Comparison of respiration-triggered diffusion-weighted echo-planar MRI and five T2-weighted turbo spin-echo sequences

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1421-1429

  Bruegel, Melanie ^a   Gaa, Jochen ^a   Waldt, Simone ^a   Woertler, Klaus ^a   Holzapfel, Konstantin ^a   Kiefer, Berthold ^b   Rummeny, Ernst J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detection; Diffusion MRI; Echo planar imaging; Hepatic metastasis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESPIRATION TRIGGERED DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; T2 WEIGHTED TURBO SPIN ECHO IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55549119597     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3279     Document Type: Article

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