High-frequency mode conversion technique for stiff lesion detection with Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE)

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1457-1465

  Mariappan, Yogesh K ^a   Glaser, Kevin J ^a   Manduca, Armando ^a   Romano, Anthony J ^b   Venkatesh, Sudhakar K ^c   Yin, Meng ^a   Ehman, Richard L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

High frequency MRE; Mode conversion; MR elastography; Stiff lesion detection; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; TUMORS;

HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LESION DETECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; MODE CONVERSIONS; MR ELASTOGRAPHY; NOVEL IMAGING TECHNIQUES; STIFFNESS MEASUREMENTS; TISSUE SIMULATING PHANTOMS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; BREAST; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER METASTASIS; MEASUREMENT; NEOPLASM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGIDITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TECHNIQUE; TUMOR; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 73149104657     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22091     Document Type: Article

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