Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging for Whole Body Metastatic Disease and Lymphadenopathy

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 245-261

  Low, Russell N ^a,b  

^a San Diego Imaging Medical Group   (United States)

^b San Diego Prevention Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Diffusion weighted whole body imaging with background body signal suppression; Echo planar imaging; Fast imaging; MR imaging; Whole body imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; WHOLE BODY MRI;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 65249180646     PISSN: 10649689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2009.01.006     Document Type: Review

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