Abdominal apparent diffusion coefficient measurements: effect of diffusion-weighted image quality and usefulness of anisotropic images

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1415-1420

  Yoshikawa, Takeshi ^a   Ohno, Yoshiharu ^a   Kawamitsu, Hideaki ^b   Ku, Yonson ^a   Seo, Yasushi ^a   Zamora, Carlos A ^c   Aoyama, Nobukazu ^b   Sugimura, Kazuro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c San Juan de Dios General Hospital   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Apparent diffusion coefficient; Diffusion weighted; Image quality; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 55949112705     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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