Whole-body MR with diffusion imaging matches PET/CT for lung cancer staging

June 6, 2008 Whole-body MR with diffusion imaging matches PET/CT for lung cancer staging James Brice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A little diffusion imaging goes a long way toward boosting the accuracy of whole-body MRI and matching the performance of whole-body FDG-PET/CT for M-staging of non-small cell lung cancer. Dr. Yoshiharu Ohno, an assistant professor of radiology at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan, drew this conclusion from a prospective trial involving 203 consecutive patients. The subjects underwent whole-body anatomic MR, diffusion-weighted imaging, and whole-body FDG-PET/CT procedures. Two chest radiologists read the MR scans, and two experienced nuclear medicine physicians interpreted the PET/CT studies.

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