Whole-body MRI for Detecting Bone Marrow Metastases

Thomas C Kwee; Taro Takahara; Kazuhiro Katahira; Katsuyuki Nakanishi

doi:10.1016/j.cpet.2010.03.006

Whole-body MRI for Detecting Bone Marrow Metastases

PET Clin. 2010 Jul;5(3):297-309. doi: 10.1016/j.cpet.2010.03.006. Epub 2010 May 13.

Authors

Thomas C Kwee¹, Taro Takahara², Kazuhiro Katahira³, Katsuyuki Nakanishi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, Utrecht 3584 CX, The Netherlands. Electronic address: thomaskwee@gmail.com.
² Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, Utrecht 3584 CX, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Radiology, Kumamoto Central Hospital, 1-5-1, Tainoshima, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto 862-0965, Japan.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, 1-3-3 Nakamichi, Higashinari-ku, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.

PMID: 27157835
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpet.2010.03.006

Abstract

The bone marrow is a common site for metastasis in cancer. Accurate detection of bone marrow metastases is of major importance because of its therapeutic and prognostic implications. MRI allows direct visualization of all bone marrow components at a good spatial resolution. Furthermore, thanks to technologic advances, it is now possible to perform MRI of the entire body. For these reasons, it is a potentially valuable technique for the detection of bone marrow metastases. This article reviews whole-body MRI techniques and the diagnostic performance of whole-body MRI compared with PET for the detection of bone marrow metastases.

Keywords: Bone marrow; MRI; Magnetic resonance imaging; Metastases; Whole-body.

Publication types

Review