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Paramagnetic metal scavenging by melanin: MR imaging.

DOI

289

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0

References

1997

Year

W S Enochs, P. Petherick, A. Bogdanova, U. Möhr, Ralph Weissleder
Radiology

Abstract

Melanotic melanomas are hyperintense on T1-weighted images because of paramagnetic metal scavenging. This observation has implications for the interpretation of MR images, the improved detection of melanomas, and the development of imaging marker genes.