TY - JOUR
T1 - Diffusion-weighted MRI in abdominal oncology
T2 - Clinical applications
AU - Sugita, Reiji
AU - Ito, Kei
AU - Fujita, Naotaka
AU - Takahashi, Shoki
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010/2/21
Y1 - 2010/2/21
N2 - Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) provides image contrast that is different from that obtained by conventional magnetic resonance techniques. Although previously, DWI has been used to evaluate various diseases of the central nervous system, several technical advances have expanded the clinical applications of DWI beyond the central nervous system. As a result, many reports have been published on the use of DWI in abdominal diseases. Particularly, abdominal DWI has now being focused on evaluation of patients with abdominal cancer. DWI can be used for pretreatment tumor detection, characterization including predicting tumor response to therapy, monitoring tumor response during therapy, and follow-up study after treatment to detect possible tumor recurrence.
AB - Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) provides image contrast that is different from that obtained by conventional magnetic resonance techniques. Although previously, DWI has been used to evaluate various diseases of the central nervous system, several technical advances have expanded the clinical applications of DWI beyond the central nervous system. As a result, many reports have been published on the use of DWI in abdominal diseases. Particularly, abdominal DWI has now being focused on evaluation of patients with abdominal cancer. DWI can be used for pretreatment tumor detection, characterization including predicting tumor response to therapy, monitoring tumor response during therapy, and follow-up study after treatment to detect possible tumor recurrence.
KW - Abdominal neoplasms
KW - Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging
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U2 - 10.3748/wjg.v16.i7.832
DO - 10.3748/wjg.v16.i7.832
M3 - Review article
C2 - 20143461
AN - SCOPUS:77449157537
VL - 16
SP - 832
EP - 836
JO - World Journal of Gastroenterology
JF - World Journal of Gastroenterology
SN - 1007-9327
IS - 7
ER -