Assessing extracranial tumors using diffusion-weighted whole-body MRI

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 79-90

  Lenz, Claudia ^a   Klarhöfer, Markus ^a   Scheffler, Klaus ^a   Winter, Leopold ^a   Sommer, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; Extracranial tumors; Whole body imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ADENOMA, LIVER CELL; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 79959190182     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: 18764436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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