Whole-body MR imaging in a multimodality world: current applications, limitations, and future potential for comprehensive musculoskeletal imaging.
Whole-body imaging offers the promise of global disease assessment. This article reviews clinical status, and technical limitations and future prospects of this exciting technology. In particular, it describes technical aspects of magnetic resonance (MR) angiography, MR lymphography, and, in particular, total-body MR imaging.
Department of Radiology, St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Jmeaney@meaneys.com
James F M
JF
Meaney
Andrew
A
Fagan
D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary; D006801:Humans; D008208:Lymphatic System / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009141:Musculoskeletal System / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D051598:Whole Body Imaging