Imaging of adult astrocytic brain tumours with 7 T MRI: Preliminary results

European Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 704-713

  Moenninghoff, Christoph ^a,b   Maderwald, Stefan ^a,b   Theysohn, Jens M ^a,b   Kraff, Oliver ^a,b   Ladd, Mark E ^a,b   El Hindy, Nicolai ^a   Van De Nes, Johannes ^a   Forsting, Michael ^a,b   Wanke, Isabel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

7 Tesla; Astrocytoma; Microvascularity; MRI; Ultrahigh field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77952318480     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-009-1592-2     Document Type: Article

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