Multiple-animal MR imaging using a 3T clinical scanner and multi-channel coil for volumetric analysis in a mouse tumor model

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 229-237

  Mitsuda, Minoru ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Masayuki ^a   Furuta, Toshihiro ^a,c   Nabetani, Akira ^d   Hirayama, Akira ^d   Nozaki, Atsushi ^d   Niitsu, Mamoru ^b   Fujii, Hirofumi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d GE HealthCare Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinical scanner; Multi channel coil; Multiple small animal MRI; Tumor volume

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GADOTERIDOL; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SARCOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SARCOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84860240617     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.10.229     Document Type: Article

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