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- The 32nd Diagnostic Imaging Seminar -

T-stage Diagnosis on Multi-slice CT in Lung Cancer Patients

Yoshiharu Ohno¹, Hisanobu Koyama¹, Munenobu Nogami¹, Sumiaki Matsumoto¹, Daisuke Takenaka¹, Yoshikazu Kotani², Yoshimasa Maniwa³, Yoshihiro Nishimura², Chiho Ohbayashi⁴, Masahiro Yoshimura³, Kazuro Sugimura^1
1Department of Radiology, ²Division of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, ³Division of Cardiovascular, Thoracic and Pediatric Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, ⁴Division of Pathology, Kobe University Hospital, Japan

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Recent advances in computed tomography (CT) such as the multi-slice CT system provide new information from various reconstructed CT images for diagnosis of TNM staging. However, capability of these images for improvement of diagnostic accuracy of T-factor has not been determined. In this review, we describe recent advancement of T-stage diagnosis on CT in lung cancer patients and its limitations.
key words: CT, MRI, Lung, Lung cancer, Staging

JJLC 47 (2): 161-167, 2007