Malignant hepatic tumors: Short-term reproducibility of apparent diffusion coefficients with breath-hold and respiratory-triggered diffusion-weighted MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 255, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 815-823

  Kim, So Yeon ^a,b   Lee, Seung Soo ^a   Byun, Jae Ho ^a   Park, Seong Ho ^a   Kim, Jeong Kon ^a   Park, Bumwoo ^a   Kim, Namkug ^a   Lee, Moon Gyu ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CANCER; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77952682692     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10091706     Document Type: Article

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