The Benefits of High Relaxivity for Brain Tumor Imaging: Results of a Multicenter Intraindividual Crossover Comparison of Gadobenate Dimeglumine with Gadoterate Meglumine (The BENEFIT Study)

^aFrom the Charles University in Prague (M.V.), First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
^bUniversity Hospital Olomouc (M.H.), Olomouc, Czech Republic
^cBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (M.P.S.), Boston, Massachusetts
^dFaculty of Medicine (M.M.), University Hospital Brno, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
^eMR Research Laboratory (K.R.M.), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
^fNa Homolce Hospital (J.W.), Prague, Czech Republic
^gDepartment of Radiology and Radiological Science (M.V.S.), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
^hUniversity Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové (J.Ž.), University Hospital Hradec Králové and Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
ⁱMallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (F.J.W.), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
^jClinical Radiologists, S.C. (J.J.B.), Springfield, Illinois
^kGood Samaritan Regional Medical Center (R.B.), Corvallis, Oregon
^lInstitute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology (E.B.), Hannover, Germany
^mHarvard Medical School (R.Y.H.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
ⁿUniversity Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf (J.-H.B.), Hamburg, Germany
^oHopital Gui de Chauliac (A.B.), Montpellier, France
^pPoliclinico “Agostino Gemelli” (C.C.), Rome, Italy
^qWest China Hospital of Sichuan University (S.L.), Chengdu, Sichuan, China
^rGlobal Medical & Regulatory Affairs (M.A.K.), Bracco Imaging S.p.A., Milan, Italy
^sGlobal Medical & Regulatory Affairs (N.S., G.P., A.S.), Bracco Diagnostics, Monroe, New Jersey.

Please address correspondence to Manuela Vaneckova, MD, Charles University in Prague, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Kateřinská 30, CZ-12808 Prague 2, Czech Republic; e-mail: man.van{at}post.cz

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