Investigation of the optimal b-value to detect breast tumors with diffusion weighted imaging by 1.5-T MRI

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tamura, Takayuki ^a   Murakami, Shigeru ^b   Naito, Kumiko ^a   Yamada, Tamaki ^a   Fujimoto, Takashi ^a   Kikkawa, Takeshi ^a  

^a Health Management and Promotion Center   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA CITY ASA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84928382777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1470-7330-14-11     Document Type: Article

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