PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - R C Hawkes
AU  - G N Holland
AU  - W S Moore
AU  - D M Kean
AU  - B S Worthington
TI  - NMR tissue characterization in intracranial tumors: preliminary results.
DP  - 1983 May 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 830--832
VI  - 4
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/4/3/830.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/4/3/830.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1983 May 01; 4
AB  - Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has been shown to have high sensitivity for detecting intracranial pathology. A study was devised to determine what information about tissue characteristics can be derived from steady-state free-precession NMR images alone and when compared with computed tomographic (CT) scans. The flow-dependent sequences allow diagnosis of intrinsic vascular lesions. Whereas precise characterization of some pathologic groups such as fat-containing tumors is possible, other important groups cannot be clearly differentiated. Preliminary findings suggest that it may be possible to predict the texture of extrinsic tumors from their NMR signals.