Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) signal intensity and distribution represent the amount of cancer cells and their distribution in primary lung cancer

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 265-272

  Usuda, Katsuo ^a   Zhao, Xi Tong ^a   Sagawa, Motoyasu ^a   Aikawa, Hirokazu ^a   Ueno, Masakatsu ^a   Tanaka, Makoto ^a   Machida, Yuichiro ^a   Matoba, Munetaka ^a   Ueda, Yoshimichi ^a   Sakuma, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Diffusion weighted imaging; Lung cancer; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR DENSITY; DEGREE OF DISTRIBUTIONS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; LUNG CANCER; MULTIPLE-PEAK; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CELLS; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER STAGING; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 84875232815     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: 18734499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2012.04.026     Document Type: Article

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