Predictive value of MRI in the localization, staging, volume estimation, assessment of aggressiveness, and guidance of radiotherapy and biopsies in prostate cancer

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-31

  Yakar, Derya ^a   Debats, Oscar A ^a   Bomers, Joyce G R ^a   Schouten, Martijn G ^a   Vos, Pieter C ^a   Van Lin, Emile ^a   Fütterer, Jurgen J ^a   Barentsz, Jelle O ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

MR guided biopsy; MR guided intensity modulated radiation therapy planning; MR guided robotic biopsy; multiparametric MR imaging; prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; ULTRASMALL SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE;

BONE METASTASIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOPSY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECURRENCE;

EID: 83755225055     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22790     Document Type: Review

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