Diffusion-weighted MR imaging: Adjunct or alternative to T1-weighted MR imaging for prostate carcinoma bone metastases?

Radiology

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 624-

  Lecouvet, Frédéric E ^a   Vande Berg, Bruno C ^a   Malghem, Jacques ^a   Omoumi, Patrick ^a   Simoni, Paolo ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE C 11; CARBON; CHOLINE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACETABULUM; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; AGED; BONE TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATE TUMOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHOLINE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70249098856     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2522090263     Document Type: Letter

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