Journal article
Susceptibility‐weighted imaging to visualize blood products and improve tumor contrast in the study of brain masses
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the diagnostic value of susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) for studying brain masses.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: SWI is a high-resolution, three-dimensional, fully velocity-compensated gradient-echo sequence that uses both magnitude and phase data. Custom postprocessing is applied to enhance the contrast in the magnitude images between tissues with different susceptibilities. This sequence was applied to 44 patients (24 …
Authors
Sehgal V; Delproposto Z; Haddar D; Haacke EM; Sloan AE; Zamorano LJ; Barger G; Hu J; Xu Y; Prabhakaran KP
Journal
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 41–51
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
July 2006
DOI
10.1002/jmri.20598
ISSN
1053-1807