Value of fusion of PET and MRI in the detection of intra-pelvic recurrence of gynecological tumor: Comparison with 18F-FDG contrast-enhanced PET/CT and pelvic MRI

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-32

  Kitajima, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Suenaga, Yuko ^a,b   Ueno, Yoshiko ^a,b   Kanda, Tomonori ^a,b   Maeda, Tetsuo ^a,b   Makihara, Natsuko ^a,b   Ebina, Yasuhiko ^a,b   Yamada, Hideto ^a,b   Takahashi, Satoru ^a,b   Sugimura, Kazuro ^a,b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HYOGO CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fused PET MRI; Gynecological tumor; MRI; PET CT; Restaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MCNEMAR TEST; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC EXAMINATION; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PERITONEAL DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PELVIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84893170277     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 18646433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-013-0777-6     Document Type: Article

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