High Resolution Imaging of Viscoelastic Properties of Intracranial Tumours by Multi-Frequency Magnetic Resonance Elastography

Clinical Neuroradiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 371-378

  Reiss Zimmermann, M ^a   Streitberger, K J ^b   Sack, I ^b   Braun, J ^b   Arlt, F ^a   Fritzsch, D ^a   Hoffmann, K T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain tumours; Meningioma; MR elastography; Multi frequency; Viscoelastic properties

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY; VISCOELASTICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HARDNESS; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84949098073     PISSN: 18691439     EISSN: 18691447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00062-014-0311-9     Document Type: Article

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