In-phase and out-of-phase gradient-echo imaging in abdominal studies: Intra-individual comparison of three different techniques

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 441-449

  Ramalho, Miguel ^a   Herédia, Vasco ^a   De Campos, Rafael O P ^a   Dale, Brian M ^b   Azevedo, Rafael M ^a   Semelka, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatic steatosis; MR fast imaging; MR techniques

Indexed keywords

CONSPICUITY; DETECTABILITY; DISEASE STATE; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; FAST IMAGING; GRADIENT ECHO; HEPATIC STEATOSIS; IMAGING SEQUENCE; IN-PHASE; LESION DETECTABILITY; MEAN AGES; MR TECHNIQUES; OUT OF PHASE; PARALLEL IMAGING; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; THREE DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84860640283     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ar.2012.110695     Document Type: Article

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