title: [Fundamental study of the detection of metastatic bone tumors with whole-body MR imaging].
abstract: Preliminary studies were performed to evaluate the usefulness of whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) in the screening of bone metastases. The fast short TI inversion recovery sequence was the most suitable method because of its minimal image distortion and uniformity of fat suppression in a large field of view. In 4 cases of malignant tumor, the localization of all 8 bone metastases detected with bone scintigraphy (BS) could be clarified with WB-MRI. Furthermore, WB-MRI with fast STIR alone could depict 4 lesions undetected by BS, and WB-MRI combined with contrast enhancement could depict 5 such lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Kawasaki Medical School.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iizuka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nagai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tamada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kajihara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fukunaga
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*