MRI of soft-tissue tumors: Fast STIR sequence as substitute for T1-weighted fat-suppressed contrast-enhanced spin-echo sequence

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1607-1614

  Tokuda, Osamu ^a   Harada, Yuko ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced; Contrast to noise ratio; MRI; Signal to noise ratio; Soft tissue tumor; STIR

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 73449094225     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2675     Document Type: Article

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