Fast three-dimensional dual echo Dixon technique improves fat suppression in breast MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 889-894

  Le Petross, Huong ^a   Kundra, Vikas ^a   Szklaruk, Janio ^a   Wei, Wei ^a   Hortobagyi, Gabriel N ^a   Ma, Jingfei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast MRI; Fast Dixon sequences; Fat suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DUAL ECHO DIXON TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ADIPOSE TISSUE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950902005     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22067     Document Type: Article

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