Functional imaging in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: Correlation of PET/CT and diffusion-weighted imaging at 3 Tesla

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1009-1019

  Fruehwald Pallamar, Julia ^a   Czerny, Christian ^a   Mayerhoefer, Marius E ^a   Halpern, Benjamin S ^a,b   Eder Czembirek, Christina ^a   Brunner, Markus ^a   Schuetz, Matthias ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Fruehwald, Laura ^a   Herneth, Andreas M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient; Correlation of functional parameters; Diffusion weighted MR imaging; Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; PET CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79958065562     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-010-1718-4     Document Type: Article

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