Assessment of hepatocellular carcinoma using apparent diffusion coefficient and diffusion kurtosis indices: Preliminary experience in fresh liver explants

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1534-1540

  Rosenkrantz, Andrew B ^a   Sigmund, Eric E ^a   Winnick, Aaron ^a   Niver, Benjamin E ^a   Spieler, Bradley ^a   Morgan, Glyn R ^a   Hajdu, Cristina H ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion kurtosis imaging; Diffusion weighted imaging; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver explants; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84868636270     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.04.020     Document Type: Article

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