Comparison of the added value of contrast-enhanced 3D fluid-attenuated inversion recovery and magnetization-prepared rapid acquisition of gradient echo sequences in relation to conventional postcontrast T1-weighted images for the evaluation of leptomeningeal diseases at 3T

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 868-873

  Fukuoka, H ^a   Hirai, Toshinori ^a   Okuda, T ^a   Shigematsu, Y ^a   Sasao, A ^a   Kimura, E ^a   Hirano, T ^a   Yano, S ^a   Murakami, R ^a   Yamashita, Y ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEPTOMENINX DISEASE; MAGNETIZATION PREPARED RAPID ACQUISITION OF GRADIENT ECHOGRAPHY; MALE; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOLOGIST; SIGNAL DETECTION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77952369003     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1937     Document Type: Article

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