Effect of shot number on the calculated apparent diffusion coefficient in phantoms and in human liver in diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 547-553

  Shiehmorteza, Masoud ^a   Sirlin, Claude B ^a   Wolfson, Tanya ^b   Gamst, Anthony ^b   Soumekh, Andre E ^c   Heaton, Shay P ^a   Kohl, Chad A ^d   Pinto, Nicholas ^a   Bydder, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PITZER COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient; Diffusion weighted; Liver; Shot number; Spin echo echo planar imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69449104015     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21861     Document Type: Article

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