Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 372-379 , April 2010

Detection of bone metastases using diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging: comparison with 11C-methionine PET and bone scintigraphy

  • Behnaz Goudarzi

      Affiliations

    • Research Center Hospital for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
    • Current address: Radiology Department, Nuclear Medicine Division, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
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  • Riwa Kishimoto

      Affiliations

    • Research Center Hospital for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 43 206 3360x6215; fax: +81 43 206 3370.
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  • Shuhei Komatsu

      Affiliations

    • Research Center Hospital for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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  • Hiroyuki Ishikawa

      Affiliations

    • Research Center Hospital for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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  • Kyosan Yoshikawa

      Affiliations

    • Research Center Hospital for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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  • Susumu Kandatsu

      Affiliations

    • Research Center Hospital for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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  • Takayuki Obata

      Affiliations

    • Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba 263-8555, Japan

Received 25 May 2009 ,Revised 19 October 2009 ,Accepted 6 December 2009.

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PII: S0730-725X(09)00300-2

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.12.008

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 372-379 , April 2010