Comparison of intravoxel incoherent motion parameters across MR imagers and field strengths: Evaluation in upper abdominal organs

Radiology

Volumn 279, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 784-794

  Barbieri, Sebastiano ^a   Donati, Olivio F ^b   Froehlich, Johannes M ^a   Thoeny, Harriet C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FIELD STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTION PARAMETER; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY MEDULLA; LIVER LOBE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS; PERFUSION FRACTION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDODIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPLEEN; ABDOMEN; BREATHING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION;

EID: 85017043136     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2015151244     Document Type: Article

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