To determine signal intensity characteristics of the gastric wall layers and to assess the accuracy of the evaluation of early gastric carcinomas in vitro by using resected specimens studied with high-spatial-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan. yamada.crad@med.tmd.ac.jp