Initial experience of 3 Tesla apparent diffusion coefficient values in differentiating benign and malignant thyroid nodules

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1077-1082

  Ilica, A Turan ^a   Artaş, Hakan ^a   Ayan, Asli ^a   Günal, Armaǧan ^a   Emer, Ozdes ^a   Kilbas, Zafer ^a   Meric, Coskun ^a   Atasoy, Mehmet Mahir ^b   Uzuner, Ovsev ^c  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b MALTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Signet Diagnostics   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion weighted MRI; nodular disease; thyroid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTADENOMA; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NODULE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84876466791     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23913     Document Type: Article

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