Abstract #2657

Whole Body Diffusion Weighted Imaging for Distant Staging in Colorectal Cancer Feasibility and Future Challenges

Doenja Lambregts¹, Monique Maas¹, Vincent Cappendijk¹, Jan Verwoerd², Iris Rutten¹, Geerard Beets³, Regina Beets-Tan¹

¹Radiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands; ²Philips Healthcare, Eindhoven, Netherlands; ³Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

Whole-body diffusion weighted imaging (WB-DWI) could prove to be a promising and feasible alternative to CT and PET-CT for distant metastases screening in colorectal cancer. This study aims to test the feasibility of WB-DWI for metastases screening and to compare the lesion detectability of WB-DWI to conventional staging techniques (CT and PET-CT)