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I have been a thoracic surgery specialist for over 40 years. During that time, I have been utilizing MRI examinations an...
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English ver. COMPARISON BETWEEN CURRENT PET-CT AND MRI
PET-CT (FDG-PET/CT: 18-fluoro-2-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography / computed tomography) has been the primary m...
English ver. PLEURAL LESION INCLUDING MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA
Usefulness of the MRI for the differential diagnosis of the pleural lesion including malignant pleural mesotheliomaMRI (...
English ver. Diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging with background suppression (DWIBS)
The research group of Dr. Taro Takahara and Professor Dr. Yutaka Imai of Tokai University have developed an epoch-making...
English ver. CHARACTERISTICS OF BASIC FINDINGS OF MRI
Various images taken with an MRI have different characteristic and represents different information. It is valuable to ...
English ver. THREE NEW METHDS OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS BETWEEN LUNG CANCER AND BENIGN PULMONARY NODULES AND MASSES (BPNMs)
We proved that the combined assessment of DWI and T2WI (①), inside/wall ADC ratio (②）and whole-lesion ADC histogram (③) ...
English ver. 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...
English ver. 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,...
English ver. 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 ...