Is there a role for BLADE acquisition in T2-weighted breast MRI?

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1078-1085

  Ozcan, Umit Aksoy ^a   Dincer, Alp ^a   Erdem Yildiz, M ^a   Cinko, Murat ^a,b   Olcay Cizmeli, M ^a  

^a ACIBADEM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Motion artifacts; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

BRAIN IMAGING; BREAST MRI; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FLOW ARTIFACTS; IMAGING PARAMETERS; MEAN AGES; MOTION ARTIFACT; MR IMAGES; MRI SEQUENCES; PECTORAL MUSCLES; SNR VALUES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; T-SYSTEMS;

IMAGE QUALITY; MUSCLE; RESONANCE; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78349253084     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02841851.2010.518975     Document Type: Article

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