Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in patients with acute brain ischemia at 3 T: Current possibilities and future perspectives comparing conventional echoplanar Diffusion-Weighted imaging and fast spin echo diffusion-weighted imaging sequences using BLADE (PROPELLER)

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 351-359

  Fries, Peter ^a   Runge, Val M ^b   Kirchin, Miles A ^c   Stemmer, Alto ^d   Naul, L Gill ^b   Wiliams, Kenneth D ^b   Reith, Wolfgang ^a   Bücker, Arno ^a   Schneider, Günther ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bracco Imaging SpA   (Italy)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEURORADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 67651113874     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181a00d09     Document Type: Article

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