[Recent progress of diagnostic imaging in evaluating pancreaticobiliary malignancies].
The increasing number of multislice CT detectors enables isotropic voxels, and ideal three-dimensional (3 D) images can be obtained easily. High-quality CTA and MPR are useful in diagnosing pancreaticobiliary diseases, and curved-MPR images serve to increase diagnostic accuracy in pancreaticobiliary malignancies. 3 D data acquisition has become a routine technique on MRI, and 3 D-dynamic study and 3 D-MRCP have become very effective diagnostic tools of MRI. It is expected that diffusion-weighted MRI can play an important role in diagnosing pancreaticobiliary malignancies.
Irie
Hiroyuki
H
Department of Clinical Radiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.
Yoshimitsu
Kengo
K
Tajima
Tsuyoshi
T
Nishie
Akihiro
A
Hirakawa
Masakazu
M
Ishigami
Kousei
K
Ushijima
Yasuhiro
Y
Okamoto
Daisuke
D
Honda
Hiroshi
H
D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*