Effect of motion on the ADC quantification accuracy of whole-body DWIBS

Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 263-266

  Stone, Alan J ^a,b   Browne, Jacinta E ^c   Lennon, Brian ^a   Meaney, James F ^a   Fagan, Andrew J ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient; Diffusion weighted imaging; DWIBS; Liver Free breathing; Motion phantom

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84865029688     PISSN: 09685243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-012-0311-1     Document Type: Article

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