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Contrast Agent Administration and Imaging Protocols for Whole-Body MRI

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For a meaningful application of whole-body MRI in the clinical setting, it is necessary to have flexible imaging protocols. The use of protocols that can be modified to address an individual patient’s clinical situation enables us to image the entire body with the highest quality and in the shortest time possible.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, Tuebingen, 72076, Germany

    Achim Seeger & Stephan Miller

  2. Department of Radiology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

    Heinz-Peter Schlemmer

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    Ralf Puls

  2. Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, Universitätsklinikum Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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Seeger, A., Miller, S., Schlemmer, HP. (2014). Contrast Agent Administration and Imaging Protocols for Whole-Body MRI. In: Puls, R., Hosten, N. (eds) Whole-body MRI Screening. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55201-4_4

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