Differential diagnosis of intracranial ring enhancing cystic mass lesions-Role of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI)

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 218-225

  Reiche, Werner ^a   Schuchardt, Volker ^a   Hagen, Thomas ^b   Il'yasov, Kamil A ^c   Billmann, Peter ^a   Weber, Johannes ^c  

^a Klinikum Lahr Ettenheim   (Germany)

^b Radiology Center   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abscess; Brain; Brain tumour; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI); Fractional anisotropy (FA); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Ring enhancing lesion

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL RING ENHANCING CYSTIC MASS LESION; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77249163603     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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