title: Advanced MR imaging of gliomas: an update.
abstract: Recent advances in the treatment of cerebral gliomas have increased the demands on noninvasive neuroimaging for the diagnosis, therapeutic planning, tumor monitoring, and patient outcome prediction. In the meantime, improved magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques have shown much potentials in evaluating the key pathological features of the gliomas, including cellularity, invasiveness, mitotic activity, angiogenesis, and necrosis, hence, further shedding light on glioma grading before treatment. In this paper, an update of advanced MR imaging techniques is reviewed, and their potential roles as biomarkers of tumor grading are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Hung-Wen
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Kao
authors.forename: Shih-Wei
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Chiang
authors.forename: Hsiao-Wen
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Fong Y
authors.initials: FY
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Cheng-Yu
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005910:Glioma / Q000098:blood supply / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008938:Mitosis; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic / Q000175:diagnosis