Diffusion tensor imaging of normal prostate at 3 T: Effect of number of diffusion-encoding directions on quantitation and image quality

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1015, 2012, Pages

  Kim, Chan Kyo ^a   Jang, S M ^a   Park, B K ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PROSTATE; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84863665530     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/21316959     Document Type: Article

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