Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 4 , Pages 298-301 , July 2010

Diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging with background body signal suppression facilitates detection and evaluation of an anterior rib contusion

  • Thomas C. Kwee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 88 7556687; fax: +31 30 2581098.
    • ,
  • Taro Takahara

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Tetsu Niwa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Department of Radiology, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan

Received 20 June 2009 ,Accepted 20 July 2009.

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PII: S0899-7071(09)00227-7

doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.07.006

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 4 , Pages 298-301 , July 2010

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