title: The state of prostate MRI in 2013.
abstract: Compared with earlier prostate MRI techniques that suffered from relatively poor sensitivity and specificity for detecting prostate cancer because of their reliance predominantly on morphology, multiparametric prostate MRI (mpMRI) in 2013 provides a wealth of functional information that has made possible vastly improved detection and characterization of prostate cancer. Our aims in this article are to describe the various imaging sequences that comprise the mpMRI exam, as well as to review current literature on the strengths/weaknesses of these sequences; to delineate strategies for standardizing interpretation and reporting of MRI results; and finally, to expound on the role that prostate MRI currently does and potentially can play in clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, NC 27710, USA. rajan.gupta@duke.edu
authors.forename: Rajan T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Christopher R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Kauffman
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Polascik
authors.forename: Samir S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Taneja
authors.forename: Andrew B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Rosenkrantz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011467:Prostate / Q000473:pathology; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D047368:Tumor Burden