Development and characterization of a dynamic lesion phantom for the quantitative evaluation of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5601-5611

  Freed, Melanie ^a,b   De Zwart, Jacco A ^c   Hariharan, Prasanna ^a   Myers, Matthew R ^a   Badano, Aldo ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

breast imaging; DCE MRI; dynamic phantom

Indexed keywords

FLOW RATE; KINETICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOLDS; PHANTOMS; PHYSIOLOGY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BREAST IMAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DCE-MRI; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED MRI; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; X RAY MEASUREMENTS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 80053581309     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3633911     Document Type: Article

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