Focal liver lesions at 3.0 T: Lesion detectability and image quality with T2-weighted imaging by using conventional and dual-source parallel radiofrequency transmission

Radiology

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 421-428

  Kukuk, Guido M ^a   Gieseke, Jürgen ^b   Weber, Sebastian ^a   Hadizadeh, Dariusch R ^a   Nelles, Michael ^a   Träber, Frank ^a   Schild, Hans H ^a   Willinek, Winfried A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERUCARBOTRAN; GADOBUTROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIO WAVES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79955000146     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11101429     Document Type: Article

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