The role of proton MR spectroscopy and apparent diffusion coefficient values in the diagnosis of malignant thyroid nodules: Preliminary results

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 323-333

  Aydin, Hasan ^a   Kizilgöz, Volkan ^a   Tatar, Idil ^a   Damar, Çaǧri ^a   Güzel, Hakan ^a   Hekimoǧlu, Baki ^a   Delibaşi, Tuncay ^a  

^a Di kapi Yildirim Beyazit Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted MRI; Magnetic resonance imaging; Spectroscopy; Thyroid; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid nodule

Indexed keywords

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; CUT-OFF VALUE; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MRI; ECHO TIME; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSIES; GOLD STANDARDS; MR IMAGING; PROTON MR SPECTROSCOPY; THYROID; THYROID CANCERS; THYROID NODULE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84862665749     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: 18734499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2011.09.009     Document Type: Article

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