Open AccessValue of intravoxel incoherent motion magnetic resonance imaging for differentiating metastatic from nonmetastatic mesorectal lymph nodes with different short-axis diameters in rectal cancer
Author(s) -
Ling Long,
Haiping Zhang,
Xiaojing He,
Jun Zhou,
Dajing Guo,
Xin-Jie Liu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_76_19
Subject(s) - medicine , intravoxel incoherent motion , colorectal cancer , magnetic resonance imaging , lymph node , nuclear medicine , prostate cancer , lymph , cancer , radiology , diffusion mri , pathology
Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) does not accurately evaluate lymph node (LN) status, which is essential for the treatment and prognosis assessment in patients with rectal cancer.