Evaluation of the placenta with relative apparent diffusion coefficient and T2 signal intensity analysis

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 495-500

  Sivrioǧlu, Ali Kemal ^a   Özcan, Ümit Aksoy ^b   Türk, Ali ^b   Ulus, Sila ^b   Yildiz, Mehmet Erdem ^b   Sönmez, Güner ^c   Mutlu, Hakan ^c  

^a Aksaz Military Hospital   (Turkey)

^b ACIBADEM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FETUS; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGIST; RELATIVE APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; RELATIVE SIGNAL INTENSITY VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84887286929     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5152/dir.2013.13106     Document Type: Article

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