Articles

Efficacy of PI-RADS in prebiopsy prostate-MRI at a urological cancer centre: a comparison with histology

Authors: MD Patel and B Rangarajan

Brain gliomas: reporting essentials and treatment response

Authors: Bradley J Erickson

Ovarian cancer: imaging in treatment selection and planning with FIGO update

Authors: Evis Sala

Imaging and cancer survivorship: challenges and changing concepts

Authors: Kenneth A Miles and Dalveer Singh

PET/MR imaging: current status and future direction

Authors: Heinz-Peter Schlemmer

Ablation for metastatic lung cancer

Authors: Thierry de Baère

Orbital tumours

Authors: Vincent Chong

MRI assessment of treatment response

Authors: Ann D King

Liver and pancreas

Authors: Jay P Heiken

Ultrasound with microbubbles

Authors: Chris Harvey

MRI with hepatobiliary contrast

Authors: Kartik S Jhaveri

Microbubbles: from cancer detection to theranostics

Authors: David Cosgrove

Theranostics: radionuclide imaging and therapy in neuroendocrine tumours

Authors: Brent Drake and Thomas Grüning

PET/CT imaging in prostate cancer

Authors: Tara Barwick

Lung cancer screening: 360 degree review

Authors: Christian J Herold and Theresa C McLoud

Small renal masses

Authors: Hersh Chandarana

Translating imaging biomarkers into clinical practice

Authors: James PB O'Connor

Augmented reality: 3D image-guided surgery

Authors: Archie Hughes-Hallett, Philip Pratt, James Dilley, Justin Vale, Ara Darzi and Erik Mayer

Using structured reporting templates in staging pancreatic malignancies

Authors: Isaac R Francis, Mahmoud M Al-Hawary and Ravi K Kaza

Characterisation of hepatobiliary lesions in an African referral hospital: initial MDCT dose challenges

Authors: TM Mutala, NM Tole and NM Kimani

Imaging of the pancreas: state of the art

Authors: G Morana, M Fusaro and A Dorigo

US perspective

Authors: Hebert Alberto Vargas

Approximation of head and neck cancer volumes in contrast enhanced CT

Tumor volume may serve as a predictor of response to radiochemotherapy (RCT) in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Computer assisted tumor volumetry requires time-consuming slice-by-slice manual or...

Authors: D. Dejaco, C. Url, V. H. Schartinger, A. K. Haug, N. Fischer, D. Riedl, A. Posch, H. Riechelmann and G. Widmann

FDG and FLT-PET for Early measurement of response to 37.5 mg daily sunitinib therapy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma

Metastatic renal cell carcinoma has a poor prognosis and an intrinsic resistance to standard treatment. Sunitinib is an oral receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor that has been used as a first-line targeted thera...

Authors: Kevin P. Horn, Jeffrey T. Yap, Neeraj Agarwal, Kathryn A. Morton, Dan J. Kadrmas, Britney Beardmore, Regan I. Butterfield, Kenneth Boucher and John M. Hoffman

The presurgical T staging of non-small cell lung cancer: efficacy comparison of 64-MDCT and 3.0 T MRI

Lung cancer has been the main concern of the cancer-related deaths worldwide. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is reported the most common subtype of lung cancer. Initial staging of NSCLC is highly associate...

Authors: Wei Tang, Ning Wu, Han OuYang, Yao Huang, Li Liu and Meng Li

Primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumors: comparing CT and MRI features with pathology

Primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumors (PHNET) are extremely rare and difficult to distinguish from primary and metastatic liver cancers since PHNETs blood supply comes from the liver artery. This study aims to...

Authors: Li-Xia Wang, Kan Liu, Guang-Wu Lin and Tao Jiang

Semi-automated segmentation of pre-operative low grade gliomas in magnetic resonance imaging

Segmentation of pre-operative low-grade gliomas (LGGs) from magnetic resonance imaging is a crucial step for studying imaging biomarkers. However, segmentation of LGGs is particularly challenging because they ...

Authors: Zeynettin Akkus, Jiri Sedlar, Lucie Coufalova, Panagiotis Korfiatis, Timothy L. Kline, Joshua D. Warner, Jay Agrawal and Bradley J. Erickson

Diagnostic value of ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT as first choice in the detection of recurrent colorectal cancer due to rising CEA

The diagnostic value of ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT) as the first imaging approach in the evaluation of rising carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is not cle...

Authors: Michael Gade, Magdalena Kubik, Rune V. Fisker, Ole Thorlacius-Ussing and Lars J. Petersen

Multi-modal imaging of tumor cellularity and Tryptophan metabolism in human Gliomas

To assess gliomas using image-based estimation of cellularity, we utilized isotropic diffusion spectrum imaging (IDSI) on clinically feasible diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and compared it with amino acid upta...

Authors: Jeong-Won Jeong, Csaba Juhász, Sandeep Mittal, Edit Bosnyák, David O. Kamson, Geoffrey R. Barger, Natasha L. Robinette, William J. Kupsky and Diane C. Chugani

STatistically Assigned Response Criteria in Solid Tumors (STARCIST)

Several reproducibility studies have established good test-retest reliability of FDG-PET in various oncology settings. However, these studies are based on relatively short inter-scan periods of 1–3 days while,...

Authors: Thomas Bengtsson, Sandra M. Sanabria-Bohorquez, Timothy J. McCarthy, David S. Binns, Rodney J. Hicks and Alex J. de Crespigny

Relevance of computerized tomography in the preoperative evaluation of patients with vulvar cancer: a prospective study

The purpose of the study was to determine whether inclusion of computerized tomography (CT) in the prospective evaluation of vulvar cancer changed the surgical treatment strategy in terms of detection of lymph...

Authors: Kjeld Andersen, Vibeke Zobbe, Ingrid Regitze Thranov and Karen Damgaard Pedersen

Trans-arterial chemoembolization and external beam radiation therapy for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma with a tumor thrombus in the inferior vena cava and right atrium

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with a tumor thrombus in the inferior vena cava (IVC) and right atrium (RA) rarely occurs and is usually associated with extremely poor prognosis, we carried out this study to ev...

Authors: Feng Duan, Wei Yu, Yan Wang, Feng-yong Liu, Peng Song, Zhi-jun Wang, Jie-yu Yan, Kai Yuan and Mao-qiang Wang

Diffusion-weighted MR neurography for the assessment of brachial plexopathy in oncological practice

To evaluate diffusion-weighted MR neurography (DW-MRN) for visualizing the brachial plexus and for the assessment of brachial plexopathy.

Authors: Adrian Andreou, Aslam Sohaib, David J Collins, Taro Takahara, Thomas C Kwee, Martin O Leach, David A MacVicar and Dow-Mu Koh

Neuroblastoma and nephroblastoma: a radiological review

Neuroblastoma (NBL) is the most common extra-cranial tumour in childhood. It can present as an abdominal mass, but is usually metastatic at diagnosis so the symptomatology can be varied. Nephroblastoma, also m...

Authors: Maureen Dumba, Noorulhuda Jawad and Kieran McHugh

Glioma grading by microvascular permeability parameters derived from dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI and intratumoral susceptibility signal on susceptibility weighted imaging

Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) estimates vascular permeability of brain tumors, and susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) may demonstrate tumor vascularity by intratumoral susceptibility signals (ITSS...

Authors: Xiaoguang Li, Yongshan Zhu, Houyi Kang, Yulong Zhang, Huaping Liang, Sumei Wang and Weiguo Zhang

Diffusion-weighted imaging and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in assessing response and recurrent disease in gynaecological malignancies

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has an established role in imaging pelvic gynaecological malignancies. It is routinely used in staging endometrial and cervical cancer, characterizing adnexal masses, selecting...

Authors: Ayshea Hameeduddin and Anju Sahdev

FDG-PET/CT for pre-operative staging and prognostic stratification of patients with high-grade prostate cancer at biopsy

The role of ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) in prostate cancer (PCa) has not been well defined yet. Because high-grade PCa tends to exhibit increased glycolyti...

Authors: Jean-Mathieu Beauregard, Annie-Claude Blouin, Vincent Fradet, André Caron, Yves Fradet, Claude Lemay, Louis Lacombe, Thierry Dujardin, Rabi Tiguert, Goran Rimac, Frédérick Bouchard and Frédéric Pouliot

Computer-aided detection (CAD) system for breast MRI in assessment of local tumor extent, nodal status, and multifocality of invasive breast cancers: preliminary study

We aimed to investigate the efficacy of computer-aided detection (CAD) for MRI in the assessment of tumor extent, lymph node status, and multifocality in invasive breast cancers in comparison with other breas...

Authors: Sung Eun Song, Bo Kyoung Seo, Kyu Ran Cho, Ok Hee Woo, Gil Soo Son, Chulhan Kim, Sung Bum Cho and Soon-Sun Kwon

Added value of advanced over conventional magnetic resonance imaging in grading gliomas and other primary brain tumors

Although conventional MR imaging (MRI) is the most widely used non-invasive technique for brain tumor grading, its accuracy has been reported to be relatively low. Advanced MR techniques, such as perfusion-wei...

Authors: Juan A Guzmán-De-Villoria, José M Mateos-Pérez, Pilar Fernández-García, Enrique Castro and Manuel Desco

The use of FDG-PET in diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL): predicting outcome following first line therapy

Positron emission tomography (PET) using ¹⁸fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) has become a standard clinical tool for staging and response assessment in aggressive lymphomas. The use of PET scans in clinical trials is s...

Authors: Monica Coughlan and Rebecca Elstrom

Morphological factors differentiating between early lung adenocarcinomas appearing as pure ground-glass nodules measuring ≤10 mm on thin-section computed tomography

We aimed to compare the morphological features of pure ground-glass nodules (GGNs; diameter, ≤10 mm) on thin-section computed tomography (TSCT) with their histopathological results in order to identify TSCT fe...

Authors: Wenjing Xiang, Yanfen Xing, Sen Jiang, Gang Chen, Haixia Mao, Kanchan Labh, Xiaoli Jia and Xiwen Sun

Hypervascular tumor volume estimated by comparison to a large-scale cerebral blood volume radiographic atlas predicts survival in recurrent glioblastoma treated with bevacizumab

Dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC)-MRI is a well-established perfusion MR imaging technique for estimating relative cerebral blood volume (CBV) in primary brain tumors; however, tumors localized to regions ...

Authors: Kevin Leu, Dieter R Enzmann, Davis C Woodworth, Robert J Harris, Anh N Tran, Albert Lai, Phioanh L Nghiemphu, Whitney B Pope, Timothy F Cloughesy and Benjamin M Ellingson

Usefulness of DWI in preoperative assessment of deep myometrial invasion in patients with endometrial carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The objective of this study was to perform a systematic review and a meta-analysis in order to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) in the preoperative assessment of deep myomet...

Authors: Sushant K Das, Xiang K Niu, Jing L Wang, Li C Zeng, Wen X Wang, Anup Bhetuwal and Han F Yang

Metabolic response by FDG-PET to imatinib correlates with exon 11 KIT mutation and predicts outcome in patients with mucosal melanoma

In patients with metastatic melanoma and KIT amplifications and/or mutations, therapy with imatinib mesylate may prolong survival. ¹⁸F-labeled 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (¹⁸F-FDG) PET/CT may be used to assess met...

Authors: Katherine Zukotynski, Jeffrey T Yap, Anita Giobbie-Hurder, Jeffrey Weber, Rene Gonzalez, Thomas F Gajewski, Steven O’Day, Kevin Kim, F Stephen Hodi and Annick D Van den Abbeele

Potential influence of automated volumetry on treatment response classifications in lung cancer lesions

Authors: Kaveh Akbari, Alexandra Barthol, Irene Schnauder, v Wunn, Elmar Brehm, Bernd Lamprecht and Franz Fellner

Interest of reference region models to monitor cancer treatment using dynamic contrast enhanced studies

Authors: F Frouin, Z Zhang, ME Cohen, M Lefort, A de Cesare, C Pellot-Barakat and O Lucidarme

Relative time-intensity curve: a new method to differentiate benign and malignant lesions on breast MRI

Authors: H Sherif, A Mahfouz, A Kambal, A Sayedin and I Mujeeb

Imaging as a guide to tissue sampling

Authors: Leslie E Quint

CT texture analysis of pulmonary lesions in patients suspected for lung cancer

Authors: MB Andersen, SW Harders, B Ganeshan, J Thygesen, HH Madsen and F Rasmussen

How accurate is 18F-FDG-PET-CT in determining local cartilaginous/bony involvement by head & neck malignancy?

Authors: LI Sonoda, A Lakhani and S Ghosh-Ray