Phosphorous-31 magnetic resonance spectroscopy of cervical cancer using transvaginal surface coil.
We developed a new transvaginal coil tuned for phosphorous-31 and measured its magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((31)P MRS) of uterine cervical cancer. In a 50-year-old woman with uterine cervical cancer (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics [FIGO] stage IIIb), (31)P MRS with the new coil clearly differentiated the low intensity of phosphocreatinine (PCr) and high intensity of phosphomonoester (PME) in tumor from those in muscle. Results suggests that this method will be useful for assessing uterine cervical cancer.
Brain Imaging Project, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan. takuya-m@nirs.go.jp
Takuya
T
Morimoto
Takayuki
T
Obata
Tatsuya
T
Ohno
Yoshiyuki
Y
Suzuki
Hiroo
H
Ikehira
Tetsuya
T
Suhara
Shigeo
S
Furukawa
Hirohiko
H
Tsujii
Takashi
T
Nakano
D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010725:Phosphocreatine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism; D010759:Phosphorus Isotopes; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism
D010759:Phosphorus Isotopes; D010725:Phosphocreatine; C025403:phosphocreatinine