Magnetic resonance imaging of the cervical spine: Comparison of 2D T2-weighted turbo spin echo, 2D T2*weighted gradient-recalled echo and 3D T2-weighted variable flip-angle turbo spin echo sequences

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 713-721

  Meindl, Thomas ^a   Wirth, Stefan ^a   Weckbach, Sabine ^b   Dietrich, Olaf ^a   Reiser, Maximilian ^a   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D MRI; Cervical spine; SPACE; T2w

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NERVE ROOT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISIBILITY;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 59949092689     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1175-7     Document Type: Article

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