Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging of the prostate.
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging is a safe, non-invasive technique of visualising the prostate gland. The Aberdeen NMR imager has a field strength of 0.08 T and can image in three planes. A correct diagnosis was made in 48 of 51 patients studied with prostatic disease. At this field strength benign and malignant prostatic tissue has the same T1 value. The presence of a metallic hip prosthesis does not interfere with the imaging.
D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011470:Prostatic Hyperplasia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*