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New CT and MR Imaging of Lung Cancer

Yoshiharu Ohno¹, Munenobu Nogami¹, Takanori Higashino¹, Sumiaki Matsumoto¹, Daisuke Takenaka², Yoshimasa Maniwa³, Miyako Satouchi⁴, Chiho Ohbayashi⁵, Yoshihiro Nishimura⁴, Masahiro Yoshimura³, Kazuro Sugimura¹
Department of ¹Radiology, Division of ³Cardiovascular, Thoracic and Pediatric Surgery,⁴Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, ²Department of Radiology, Kasai Municipal Hospital, Japan, ⁵Division of Pathology, Kobe University Hospital, Japan

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Recent advances in computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging such as the multidetector-row CT system, the parallel imaging technique, new sequences and software provide new reconstructed CT images and new MR imaging for diagnosis of TNM staging and assessment of pulmonary function. In this review, we describe recent advances in MR imaging of lung cancer, focusing on (1) characterization of solitary pulmonary nodules and differentiation of subtypes of adenocarcinoma; (2) assessment of T-, N-, M-stage, and (3) pulmonary functional MR imaging.
key words: CT, Magnetic resonance, Lung, Lung cancer, Staging

JJLC 45 (1): 63-73, 2005