Assessment of mediastinal tumors with diffusion-weighted single-shot echo-planar MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 535-540

  Razek, Ahmed Abdel ^a   Elmorsy, Ahmed ^a   Elshafey, Mohsen ^a   Elhadedy, Tamer ^a   Hamza, Osama ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted; Mediastinal; MRI; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69449097787     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21871     Document Type: Article

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