Open AccessAreas Suspicious for Prostate Cancer: MR–guided Biopsy in Patients with at Least One Transrectal US-guided Biopsy with a Negative Finding—Multiparametric MR Imaging for Detection and Biopsy Planning
Author(s) -
Tobias Franiel,
Carsten Stephan,
Andreas Erbersdobler,
Ekkehart Dietz,
Andreas Maxeiner,
Nina Hell,
Alexander Huppertz,
Kurt Miller,
Ralph Strecker,
Bernd Hamm
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.118
H-Index - 295
eISSN - 1527-1315
pISSN - 0033-8419
DOI - 10.1148/radiol.10101251
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , biopsy , magnetic resonance imaging , nuclear medicine , radiology , prostate , effective diffusion coefficient , diffusion mri , gold standard (test) , cancer
To prospectively investigate the incremental value of multiparametric magnetic resonance (MR) imaging compared with standard T2-weighted imaging for biopsy planning.