Evaluation of Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging for Detection of Bowel Inflammation in Patients with Crohn's Disease

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 597-603

  Oto, Aytekin ^a   Zhu, Fang ^a   Kulkarni, Kirti ^a   Karczmar, Gregory S ^a   Turner, Jerrold R ^a   Rubin, David ^a  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

bowel; Crohn's disease; Diffusion weighted MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ASCENDING COLON; CECUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON SURGERY; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DESCENDING COLON; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ENTEROGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; SIGMOID; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSVERSE COLON;

ADULT; AGED; CROHN DISEASE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 63349107749     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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