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Efficacy of T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in detecting hepatic tumors

Published in Law and Health Weekly, April 30th, 2005

Researchers examined the efficacy of T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in detecting hepatic tumors preoperatively.

According to recent research from Japan, "The purpose of our study was to determine whether or not the addition of T2-weighted fast spin-echo (SE) imaging to gadolinium-enhanced spoiled gradient-recalled-echo (GRE) imaging improves the observer performance in the preoperative detection of malignant hepatic tumors."

"Gadolinium-enhanced GRE and fat-suppressed T2-weighted fast SE images obtained in 49 patients with 82 surgically confirmed malignant hepatic tumors (40 hepatocellular carcinomas and 42 metastases) were retrospectively...

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