Two-sequence MR: Enough to detect csPCa?

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Two-sequence MR: Enough to detect csPCa?

This retrospective evaluation shows no difference in diagnostic accuracy between a short 2-sequence MR protocol (T2ax + DWI) and a full mpMRI of the prostate for detection of clinically significant prostate cancer. 

Kuhl CK, Bruhn R, Krämer N, Nebelung S, Heidenreich A, Schrading S. Abbreviated Biparametric Prostate MR Imaging in Men with Elevated Prostate-specific Antigen. Radiology. 2017 Jul 20:170129. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2017170129. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28727544.

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DCE-MRI of the prostate: what's an adequate temporal resolution?

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DCE-MRI of the prostate: what's an adequate temporal resolution?

DCE of the prostate: Intraindividual assessment of the effect of temporal resolution on detection and quantitative analysis of prostate cancer.

Ream JM, Doshi AM, Dunst D, Parikh N, Kong MX, Babb JS, Taneja SS, Rosenkrantz AB. Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI of the prostate: An intraindividual assessment of the effect of temporal resolution on qualitative detection and quantitative analysis of histopathologically proven prostate cancer. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2016 Sep 20. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25451. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27649481.

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Pulse sequences necessary for recurrence detection after Radiotherapy

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Pulse sequences necessary for recurrence detection after Radiotherapy

MP MRI of the prostate in detection of recurrent prostate cancer after Radiotherapy: Which sequences are necessary?

Donati OF, Jung SI, Vargas HA, Gultekin DH, Zheng J, Moskowitz CS, Hricak H, Zelefsky MJ, Akin O. Multiparametric prostate MR imaging with T2-weighted, diffusion-weighted, and dynamic contrast-enhanced sequences: are all pulse sequences necessary to detect locally recurrent prostate cancer after radiation therapy? Radiology. 2013 Aug;268(2):440-50

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