B1 transmission-field inhomogeneity and enhancement ratio errors in dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) of the breast at 3T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 234-239

  Azlan, Che A ^a,b   Di Giovanni, Pierluigi ^a   Ahearn, Trevor S ^a   Semple, Scott I K ^c   Gilbert, Fiona J ^a   Redpath, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3T; B1 field inhomogeneity; Breast tumor; Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI; High field MRI; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BREAST; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 74049093102     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22018     Document Type: Article

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