Clinical value of 3D T2*-weighted imaging with multi-echo acquisition: Comparison with conventional 2D T2*-weighted imaging and 3D phase-sensitive MR imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 205-211

  Kunimatsu, Akira ^a   Suzuki, Yuichi ^b   Hagiwara, Kazuchika ^a   Sasaki, Hiroki ^b   Mori, Harushi ^a   Katsura, Masaki ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

MRI; Susceptibility weighted imaging; T2* weighted imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN VEIN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL VEINS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867856602     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.11.205     Document Type: Article

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