Whole-body MRI with diffusion-weighted sequence for staging of patients with suspected ovarian cancer: a clinical feasibility study in comparison to CT and FDG-PET/CT

Katrijn Michielsen,Ignace Vergote,Katya Op de beeck,Frédéric Amant,Karin Leunen,Philippe Moerman,Christophe Deroose,Geert Souverijns,Steven Dymarkowski,Frederik De Keyzer,Vincent Vandecaveye

Whole-body MRI with diffusion-weighted sequence for staging of patients with suspected ovarian cancer: a clinical feasibility study in comparison to CT and FDG-PET/CT

2014

Katrijn Michielsen
Ignace Vergote
Katya Op de beeck
Frédéric Amant
Karin Leunen
Philippe Moerman
Christophe Deroose
Geert Souverijns
Steven Dymarkowski
Frederik De Keyzer
Vincent Vandecaveye

Objectives To evaluate whole-body MRI with diffusion-weighted sequence (WB-DWI/MRI) for staging and assessing operability compared with CT and FDG-PET/CT in patients with suspected ovarian cancer.

Keywords:

Diffusion MRI
Radiology
Ovarian cancer
Tumour staging
Pathology
Whole body imaging
PET-CT
Medicine
Stage (cooking)
Positron emission tomography
Interventional radiology
Neuroradiology
Carcinoma

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