Usefulness of contrast-enhanced T1-weighted sampling perfection with application-optimized contrasts by using different flip angle evolutions in detection of small brain metastasis at 3T MR imaging: Comparison with magnetization-prepared rapid acquisition of gradient echo imaging

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 923-929

  Kato, Yumiko ^a   Higano, S ^a   Tamura, H ^a   Mugikura, S ^a   Umetsu, A ^a   Murata, T ^a   Takahashi, S ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65949120436     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1506     Document Type: Article

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