Jing Guo1,
Martin Simon2, Sebastian Papazoglou3, Christian Erdmann4,
Uwe Melchert2, Matteo Bonsanto4, Juergen Braun5,
Dirk Petersen2, Ingolf Sack3, Jens Wuerfel6
1Department
of Radiology, Charite - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 2neuroradiology,
University Luebeck, Luebeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; 3Department
of Radiology, Charite- University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 4neuroradiology,
University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein - Campus Luebeck, Luebeck,
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; 5Department of Medical Informatics,
Charite - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 6neuroradiology,
University Medicine Goettingen, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Tumor MRE characterizes and differentiates individual tumor entities indistinguishable by conventional MRI. MRE may thus provide a predictive marker for tumor malignancy and therewith contribute to an early noninvasive clinical assessment of suspicious cerebral lesions.