Utility of chemical shift and diffusion-weighted imaging in characterization of hyperattenuating adrenal lesions at 3.0T

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2137-2143

  Song, Jiqing ^a   Zhang, Chengqi ^a   Liu, Qingwei ^a   Yu, Taifei ^a   Jiang, Xuemei ^b   Xia, Qinghua ^a   Zhang, Yinan ^a   Sequeiros, Roberto Blanco ^c  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (China)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adrenal gland neoplasms; Chemical shift; Diffusion weighted imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL CYST; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL TO SPLEEN RATIO; ADULT; AGED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERATTENUATING ADENOMA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIPID POOR ADENOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORGAN SIZE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864723348     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.09.016     Document Type: Article

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