Breast MRI at 7 Tesla with a bilateral coil and T1-weighted acquisition with robust fat suppression: Image evaluation and comparison with 3 Tesla

European Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2969-2978

  Brown, Ryan ^a   Storey, Pippa ^a   Geppert, Christian ^b   McGorty, Kellyanne ^a   Leite, Ana Paula Klautau ^a   Babb, James ^a   Sodickson, Daniel K ^a   Wiggins, Graham C ^a   Moy, Linda ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral breast imaging; Breast cancer; Fat suppression; High field MRI; RF coil array

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BILATERAL BREAST IMAGING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEDICAL DEVICE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885955746     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-013-2972-1     Document Type: Article

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