Kar-ho Francis Lee1, Ka-Wai Yeung1, Koon-Ming Kam2, Buig-Yu Ma2, Ann Dorothy King1, Kwok-Hung Yu2, Chen Wu Hu3, Anil Ahuja1
1Departmemt of Radiology and Organ Imaging, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; 2Departmemt of Clinical Oncology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; 3Shenzhen Fifth Hospital and Luo-hu District Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Radiation injury occurs in the parotid glands of patients being irradiated for head and neck cancer. Increased contrast enhancement in MRI of parotid glands after radiotherapy has been reported and so to improve the understanding of radiation injury we studied further these changes in contrast enhancement using dynamic contrast enhancement MRI (DCE-MRI).
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