Whole-body diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in the staging of oncological patients: Comparison with positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET-CT) in a pilot study;Risonanza magnetica con diffusione total-body nella stadiazione di pazienti oncologici. Confronto con TAC-PET in uno studio pilota

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-17

  Stecco, A ^a   Romano, G ^a   Negru, M ^a   Volpe, D ^a   Saponaro, A ^a   Costantino, S ^a   Sacchetti, G ^a   Inglese, E ^a   Alabiso, O ^a   Carriero, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; PET CT; Whole body

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOLOGIST; SARCOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PILOT PROJECTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 62949175940     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-008-0348-4     Document Type: Article

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