Recognition of cancer in vivo by nuclear magnetic resonance.
Pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance has been used to differentiate in vivo between normal mouse tail tissue and a malignant transplanted melanoma, S91, located on the tail. The tumor displayed a nuclear (proton) spin-lattice relaxation time of approximately 0.7 second contrasted with the simultaneously measured normal tail tissue relaxation time of approximately 0.3 second.
D000818:Animals; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D051379:Mice; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009374:Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000175:diagnosis; D013623:Tail