English Message from the author I have been a thoracic surgery specialist for over 40 years. During that time, I have been utilizing MRI examinations an... 2025.05.09 English
English PLEURAL LESION INCLUDING MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA Usefulness of the MRI for the differential diagnosis of the pleural lesion including malignant pleural mesotheliomaMRI (... 2025.05.06 English
English SUTURE RECURRENCE AND SUTURE GRANULOMA AFTER PULMONARY RESECTION FOR LUNG CANCER Usefulness of MRI for the differential diagnosis of suture recurrence and suture granuloma after pulmonary resection for... 2025.05.06 English
English DWIBS FOR DETECTION OF RECURRENCE AND METASTASIS AFTER SURGERY OF LUNG CANCER We reported that DWIBS could detect recurrence and metastasis with a better accuracy after surgery of lung cancer.Usuda ... 2025.05.08 English
English Nippon Television reported that DWIBS is the ultimate examination! Diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging with background suppression (DWIBS) (Whole-body DWI)On Feb 26, 2022 Nippon Televis... 2025.05.08 English
日本語 REFERENCES Usuda K, Ishikawa M, Iwai S, Yamagata A, et al. Pulmonary Nodule and Mass: Superiority of MRI of Diffusion-Weighted Imag... 2025.05.08 English日本語
English T2-WEIGHTED IMAGING (T2WI) FOR DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN LUNG CANCER AND BENIGN PULMONARY NODULES AND MASSES (BPNMs) We concluded that T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) was useful for differential diagnosis between lung cancer and PNMs.Usuda K,... 2025.05.08 English
English MRI FOR LUNG CANCER The usefulness of MRI for lung cancer is presented in Table 4.After a report by Webb et al. of Radiologic Diagnostic Onc... 2025.05.06 English
English PULMONARY NODULES AND MASSES (PNMs). MRI vs PET-CT We reported that MRI of diffusion-weighted imaging and T2-weighted imaging is superior than FDG-PET/CT for differential ... 2025.05.08 English
English News! I have published a book on the usefulness of MRI. My book "The Superiority of MRI in Lung Cancer, Pulmonary Nodule and Thoracic Neoplasm Evaluation" was published on Augu... 2025.05.05 English