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- Title
Diffusion MR Imaging of the Brain in Patients with Cancer.
- Authors
Debnam, J. Matthew; Schellingerhout, Dawid
- Abstract
Over the last several years, there has been significant advancement in the molecular characterization of intracranial diseases, particularly cerebral neoplasms. While nuclear medicine technology, including PET/CT, has been at the foreground of exploration, new MR imaging techniques, specifically diffusion-weighted and diffusion tensor imaging, have shown interesting applications towards advancing our understanding of cancer involving the brain. In this paper, we review the fundamentals and basic physics of these techniques, and their applications to patient care for both general diagnostic use and in answering specific questions in selection of patients in terms of expected response to treatment.
- Subjects
DIFFUSION magnetic resonance imaging; CANCER patients; BRAIN tumors; NUCLEAR medicine; POSITRON emission tomography; DIFFUSION tensor imaging; DIAGNOSTIC imaging
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Imaging, 2011, p1
- ISSN
2090-1712
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2011/714021