Minimizing the Acquisition Time for Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Acquisitions in the Liver and Pancreas

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 211-220

  Gurney Champion, Oliver J ^a   Froeling, Martijn ^a,b   Klaassen, Remy ^a,c   Runge, Jurgen H ^a   Bel, Arjan ^a   Van Laarhoven, Hanneke W M ^c   Stoker, Jaap ^a   Nederveen, Aart J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Medical Oncology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

diffusion weighted imaging; intravoxel incoherent motion; liver; pancreas; postprocessing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; LIVER; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PANCREAS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84949444844     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000225     Document Type: Article

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