We will be discussing MRI examinations, which are useful for detecting malignant tumors throughout the body!
The future is at hand: Whole body MRI examinations
For researchers worldwide
Compared to conventional CT, MRI allows for qualitative analysis of benign or malignant diseases, not just morphology. Compared to PET/CT, MRI enables early assessment of therapeutic effects, is inexpensive, and does not require radioactive isotopes.
Diffusion-weighted MRI is useful for differentiating between benign and malignant pulmonary masses, diagnosing the N factor, M factor, and stage of lung cancer, evaluating vascular, and mediastinal invasion, and determining the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiotherapy for lung cancer. MRI is also useful for evaluating whether mediastinal lesions or pleural lesions are malignant or benign. Furthermore, diffusion-weighted MRI images are not only useful for the early diagnosis of cerebral infarctions, but are also useful in diagnosing malignant tumors in the chest, abdomen, breast, colon, gynecological, and urological areas, and can also diagnose distant metastases, including bone metastases.
DWIBS (Diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging with background suppression), an MRI test that searches for cancer lesions throughout the body in a single test, can detect malignant lesions in the same way as PET-CT, and malignant lesions are easy to recognize because they glow white.
We believe it is also useful for health checkups for patients who are allergic to radiation exposure. In short, DWIBS can be said to be an inexpensive PET-CT without radiation exposure. PET-CT and DWIBS have almost the same results, and in some cases DWIBS outperforms PET-CT, and in other cases PET-CT outperforms DWIBS.
The purpose of this blog is to inform the medical community about MRI and hopefully to encourage others to continue to make progress with additional research.
Chest CT image (left) and MRI diffusion-weighted image (right) of lung cancer.
In the MRI diffusion-weighted image, the lung cancer can be identified as glowing.