Differentiation of malignant from benign pheochromocytomas with diffusion-weighted and dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance at 3.0 T

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 361-366

  Dong, Yin ^a   Liu, Qingwei ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

apparent diffusion coefficients; contrast enhanced imaging; MR; pheochromocytoma

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; B VALUE; CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGING; DIFFUSION DYNAMICS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED; DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; T1-WEIGHTED;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84863915237     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: 15323145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e31825975f8     Document Type: Article

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