Open AccessDetection of pituitary microadenomas: comparison of dynamic keyhole fast spin-echo, unenhanced, and conventional contrast-enhanced MR imaging.
Author(s) -
Walter Kucharczyk,
Jonathan Bishop,
Donald B. Plewes,
Marc Keller,
Susan R. George
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
american journal of roentgenology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.294
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1546-3141
pISSN - 0361-803X
DOI - 10.2214/ajr.163.3.8079866
Subject(s) - medicine , pituitary disease , radiology , lesion , nuclear medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , contrast (vision) , dynamic contrast , pituitary gland , keyhole , dynamic imaging , pathology , image processing , hormone , materials science , digital image processing , artificial intelligence , welding , computer science , metallurgy , image (mathematics)
Pituitary microadenomas may not be detected on conventional MR images. We supplemented conventional unenhanced and contrast-enhanced MR imaging with a dynamic keyhole fast spin-echo (kFSE) method in order to compare how frequently a microadenoma could be detected with the three different methods.