title: Chest applications of magnetic resonance imaging: an update.
abstract: Accumulated experience with MR applications in the chest has helped to define its role relative to other modalities. Technical advances improving image quality, newer fast scans, and cine methods are expanding the information available from MR. This discussion reviews the useful applications and limitations of MR in evaluating thoracic disorders. Physicians should be knowledgeable and selective in their utilization of this modality.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Gefter
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000175:diagnosis; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis; D013479:Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D013896:Thoracic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*