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- Title
Functional imaging of the bowel.
- Authors
Griffin, Nyree; Goh, Vicky
- Abstract
Functional imaging techniques enable physiological information to be derived, which, combined with high-resolution anatomical imaging, has the potential to improve the management of patients with intestinal disease. Two of the common pathologies where imaging has a substantial role in depicting disease extent, in staging disease, and assessing therapeutic response and/or disease relapse are cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. In these scenarios, functional imaging may augment assessment of disease activity, therapeutic response/non-response, as well as disease relapse by indicating physiological changes as a result of tumor, inflammation, or fibrosis.
- Subjects
INTESTINAL radiography; INTESTINAL disease diagnosis; INFLAMMATORY bowel disease diagnosis; COLON cancer diagnosis; CONTRAST-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging; DIFFUSION magnetic resonance imaging; CANCER relapse
- Publication
Abdominal Imaging, 2013, Vol 38, Issue 6, p1203
- ISSN
0942-8925
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00261-013-0030-8