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- The 37th Diagnostic Imaging Seminar -
The Role of MRI in the Diagnosis of the Lung Cancers and Mediastinal Tumors
Katsuhiro Nasu11Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Tsukuba University, Japan
The clinical indications of MRI for neoplastic lesions in the chest are limited at the current time; however, when MR examinations are performed with appropriate sequences and, for appropriate purposes, they can play an important role in the clinical scenario. In particularly, current technical progress enables us to obtain various information concerning the living body without any invasive procedures. Additionally, whole body MRI and lymph node-specific contrast materials will be introduced in the diagnosis of lung cancer in the developed countries except for Japan. Unfortunately, we cannot access these 2 novel technical developments because of the problems in the medical systems in Japan.
key words: MRI, Lung cancer, Mediastinal tumor
JJLC 52 (3): 326-335, 2012
