Kyung Soo Lee MD, PhD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

1) To review most popular MRI techniques that are used in thoracic MR imaging. 2) To demonstrate how effective MR imaging is in nodule characterization and lung cancer staging, particularly focused on diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging with background body signal suppression (DWIBS).

Diffusion-weighted MR imaging helps characterize lung nodule, and enables staging and prognosis prediction in lung cancer. Diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging with background body signal suppression (DWIBS) is known to be specific in nodal staging and effective in whole body MR imaging. Both whole body MRI and PET-CT may be used in extra-thoracic lung cancer staging, but each modality has its own and different merits in lung cancer staging. Whole body MRI-PET may be the future oncologic imaging modality.

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Lee, K, MRI: Advances in Nodule Characterization and Lung Cancer Staging.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14000762.html