Abstract #1423

Preliminary study of BOLD fMRI for the differentiation of musculoskeletal benign and malignant tumors

Nan Sun¹, Cuiping Ren¹, Ying Li¹, Jingliang Cheng¹, and Zhizheng Zhuo²

¹Dept. of MRI, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, ²Philips Healthcare, Beijing, China

This work investigated and evaluated the role of Blood Oxygenation Level-Dependent (BOLD) based functional MRI in characterizing the musculoskeletal tumors, and furtherly evaluate the ability of the power calculated from the fMRI time series to differentiate benign and malignant tumors, which might be helpful for clinical diagnosis and studies.

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