Combined MRI and MRS in Prostate Cancer

Professor of radiology, pharmaceutical chemistry, and urology at the University of California, San Francisco. John Kurhanewicz, Ph.D., makes the case for acquiring MR spectroscopic data at the same time as standard MRI exam to expand diagnostic assessment for prostate cancer beyond either method alone. 


He shows how MRS improves the ability of MRI to identify location and extent of cancer within the prostate, and provides assessment of tumor aggressiveness – critical for therapeutic selection. In addition he demonstrates how the combination of MRI and MR Spectroscopy offers precise correlation of areas of anatomic abnormality with corresponding zones of metabolic abnormality, thereby improving characterization of prostate cancer in individual patients.


Well written with the non-radiologist reader in mind, a must read for the referring physician and even the radiology student as well. Concludes with multiple choice interactive quiz.



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