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.
Morimoto
Takuya
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Brain Imaging Project, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan. takuya-m@nirs.go.jp
Obata
Takayuki
T
Ohno
Tatsuya
T
Suzuki
Yoshiyuki
Y
Ikehira
Hiroo
H
Suhara
Tetsuya
T
Furukawa
Shigeo
S
Tsujii
Hirohiko
H
Nakano
Takashi
T
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