Magnetic resonance imaging of the chest in the evaluation of cancer patients: state of the art

Radiologia Brasileira

Marcos Duarte Guimaraes¹  Bruno Hochhegger¹  Marcel Koenigkam Santos¹  Pablo Rydz Pinheiro Santana¹  Arthur Soares Sousa Júnior¹  Luciana Soares Souza¹  Edson Marchiori¹ 

关键词: Magnetic resonance imaging;    Diffusion-weighted imaging;    Chest;    Thoracic lesions;    Oncology;    Ressonância magnética;    Difusão;    Tórax;    Lesões torácicas;    Oncologia;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0100-3984.2013.1921

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has several advantages in the evaluation of cancer patients with thoracic lesions, including involvement of the chest wall, pleura, lungs, mediastinum, esophagus and heart. It is a quite useful tool in the diagnosis, staging, surgical planning, treatment response evaluation and follow-up of these patients. In the present review, the authors contextualize the relevance of MRI in the evaluation of thoracic lesions in cancer patients. Considering that MRI is a widely available method with high contrast and spatial resolution and without the risks associated with the use of ionizing radiation, its use combined with new techniques such as cine-MRI and functional methods such as perfusion- and diffusion-weighted imaging may be useful as an alternative tool with performance comparable or complementary to conventional radiological methods such as radiography, computed tomography and PET/CT imaging in the evaluation of patients with thoracic neoplasias.

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