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    Magnetic resonance elastography in the assessment of hepatic fibrosis: a study comparing transient elastography and histological data in the same patients

    To evaluate the quantitative measurement of liver stiffness (LS), compare the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) and ultrasound-based transient elastography (TE), and evaluate two ...

    Masafumi Toguchi, Masakatsu Tsurusaki, Norihisa Yada, Keitaro Sofue in Abdominal Radiology (2017)

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    Imaging of metastases from breast cancer to uncommon sites: a pictorial review

    There are three types of breast cancer recurrence which can occur after initial treatment: local, regional, and distant. Distant metastases are more frequent than local and regional recurrences. It usually occ...

    Masafumi Toguchi, Mitsuru Matsuki, Isao Numoto in Japanese Journal of Radiology (2016)

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    Contrast enhancement of intracranial lesions at 1.5 T: comparison among 2D spin echo, black-blood (BB) Cube, and BB Cube-FLAIR sequences

    The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of T1W black-blood Cube (BB Cube) and T1W BB Cube fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (BB Cube-FLAIR) sequences for contrast-enhanced brain imaging, ...

    SungWoon Im, Ryuichiro Ashikaga, Yukinobu Yagyu, Tetsuya Wakayama in European Radiology (2015)

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    Endometrial cancer: preoperative staging using three-dimensional T2-weighted turbo spin-echo and diffusion-weighted MR imaging at 3.0 T: a prospective comparative study

    To prospectively assess the efficacy of 3-T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging using the three-dimensional turbo spin-echo T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted technique (3D-TSE/DW) compared with that of convention...

    Masatoshi Hori, Tonsok Kim, Hiromitsu Onishi, Izumi Imaoka in European Radiology (2013)

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    Adrenal masses: the value of additional fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) in differentiating between benign and malignant lesions

    To investigate whether integrated fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) can differentiate benign from adrenal malignant lesions on the basis of maximum standardized u...

    Masahiro Okada, Taro Shimono, Yoshihiro Komeya, Rina Ando in Annals of Nuclear Medicine (2009)

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    Ring-shaped lateral ventricular nodules: an incidental finding on brain magnetic resonance imaging

    We have occasionally seen ring-shaped lateral ventricular nodules <1 cm in diameter during routine brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We investigated retrospectively clinical and MRI findings of the nodules.

    Taro Shimono, Makoto Hosono, Ryuichiro Ashikaga, Seishi Kumano in Neuroradiology (2009)

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    Discordance of motion artifacts on magnetic resonance imaging in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: comparison of diffusion-weighted and conventional imaging sequences

    Motion artifact is problematic in the diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) because of dementia. The purpose was to compare the occurrence of this artifact between a diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic res...

    Taro Shimono, Takahiro Tsuboyama, Masatomo Kuwabara, Sung-woon Im in Radiation Medicine (2008)