Feasibility and clinical value of whole body diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging in detection of bone metastases

Acta Academiae Medicinae Sinicae

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 192-199

  Li, Shuo ^a   Xue, Hua Dan ^a   Sun, Fei ^b   Jin, Zheng Yu ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (China)

Author keywords

Bone metastasis; Bone scintigraphy; Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; Whole body imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CERVICAL SPINE; CLAVICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISSEMINATED CANCER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FIBULA; HUMAN; HUMERUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PELVIC GIRDLE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RIB; SACRUM; SCAPULA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; SPINE METASTASIS; STERNUM; THORACIC SPINE; TIBIA; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049091641     PISSN: 1000503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3881/j.issn.1000-503X.2009.02.015     Document Type: Article

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