MR scanner systems should be adequately characterized in diffusion-MRI of the breast

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Giannelli, Marco ^a   Sghedoni, Roberto ^b   Iacconi, Chiara ^c   Iori, Mauro ^b   Traino, Antonio Claudio ^a   Guerrisi, Maria ^d   Mascalchi, Mario ^e   Toschi, Nicola ^d,f,g   Diciotti, Stefano ^e,h  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Massa Hosp   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84900335972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086280     Document Type: Article

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