Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the liver using TRacking only navigator echo: Feasibility study

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 57-63

  Takahara, Taro ^a   Kwee, Thomas C ^a   Van Leeuwen, Maarten S ^a   Ogino, Tetsuo ^b   Horie, Tomohiko ^c   Van Cauteren, Marc ^b   Herigault, Gwenael ^b   Imai, Yutaka ^c   Mali, W P Th M ^a   Luijten, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; Free breathing; Liver; Respiratory gating; Tracking only navigator echo; TRON

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CARCINOMA;

EID: 74949109673     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181cc25ed     Document Type: Article

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