Short- And midterm reproducibility of apparent diffusion coefficient measurements at 3.0-T diffusion-weighted Imaging of the abdomen

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 459-465

  Braithwaite, Adam C ^a   Dale, Brian M ^b   Boll, Daniel T ^a   Merkle, Elmar M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPLEEN; ABDOMEN; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 61749088918     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2502080849     Document Type: Article

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