Differentiation between glioblastomas, solitary brain metastases, and primary cerebral lymphomas using diffusion tensor and dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MR imaging

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 507-514

  Wang, Sumei ^a   Kim, S ^b   Chawla, S ^a   Wolf, R L ^a   Knipp, D E ^a   Vossough, A ^a   O'Rourke, D M ^a   Judy, K D ^a   Poptani, H ^a   Melhem, E R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBRAL LYMPHOMA; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DYNAMIC SUSCEPTIBILITY CONTRAST ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LINEAR ANISOTROPY COEFFICIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPHERIC ANISOTROPY COEFFICIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPHOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952798413     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2333     Document Type: Article

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