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Radiologia (Engl Ed). 2019 May - Jun;61(3):191-203. doi: 10.1016/j.rx.2018.12.004. Epub 2019 Feb 14.

Advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques for tumors of the head and neck.

Radiologia

[Article in Spanish]
E Santos Armentia, T Martín Noguerol, V Suárez Vega

Affiliations

  1. Departamento de Radiología, Hospital Povisa, Vigo, Pontevedra, España. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Sección de Neurorradiología, SERCOSA, Grupo Health Time, Jaén, España.
  3. Departamento de Radiología, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra Campus Madrid, Madrid, España.

PMID: 30772004 DOI: 10.1016/j.rx.2018.12.004

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging has become a fundamental tool for the evaluation of head and neck tumors. The anatomic details that magnetic resonance images provide are fundamental for diagnosing, characterizing, and staging both primary tumors and lymph node metastases. In addition to technical improvements in anatomic sequences, such as Dixon techniques to improve fat suppression, other sequences being developed, such as diffusion and perfusion, provide molecular, biological, and physiological information about the tumor and are yielding imaging biomarkers that can help in determining the tumor's biology at the time of diagnosis and in the follow-up of the disease. Magnetic resonance imaging also provides very useful information about the response to treatment.

Copyright © 2019 SERAM. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Diffusion; Difusión; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Patología tumoral de cabeza y cuello; RM funcional; Resonancia magnética; Tumors of the head and neck

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