Matthew David Blackledge1, David J. Collins1,
Toni Wallace1, Dow-Mu Koh1, Martin O. Leach1
1CR-UK and EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre,
Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey,
United Kingdom
We
have demonstrated that the use of whole body DTI is feasible and practicable
in the time required to obtain standard diffusion weighted whole body
measurements of bone metastases without significant loss in image
quality. Furthermore it is possible to
measure useful biological parameters such as fractional anisotropy which may
have direct clinical relevance in detecting spinal cord compression.
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