Detection rate, location, and size of pulmonary nodules in trimodality PET/CT-MR: Comparison of low-dose CT and dixon-based MR imaging

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 241-246

  Stolzmann, Paul ^a   Veit Haibach, Patrick ^a   Chuck, Natalie ^a   Rossi, Cristina ^a   Frauenfelder, Thomas ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a   Schulthess, Gustav Von ^a   Boss, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

computed tomography; hybrid imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; positron emission tomography; pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG NODULE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY PET;

FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84876298110     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31826f2de9     Document Type: Article

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