Combined MRI and MRS improves pre-therapeutic diagnoses of pediatric brain tumors over MRI alone

Neuroradiology

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 951-956

  Shiroishi, Mark S ^a   Panigrahy, Ashok ^a,b   Moore, Kevin R ^c   Nelson, Marvin D ^a   Gilles, Floyd H ^a   Gonzalez Gomez, Ignacio ^d   Blüml, Stefan ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Rudi Schulte Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnoses; MR imaging; MR spectroscopy; Pediatric brain tumors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING;

EID: 84942094623     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: 14321920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-015-1553-1     Document Type: Article

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