Abstract #2099

Usefulness of Subtracted Images from 4 Minutes to 1 Minute in Dynamic Contrast-enhanced (DCE) Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging for Prostate Cancer; Pilot Study

Sung Kyoung Moon¹, Hyug-Gi Kim², Kyung Mi Lee¹, and Joo Won Lim¹

¹Radiology, Kyung Hee University Hospital, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Electronic Information Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea, Republic of

The purpose of our study is to assess the usefulness of subtracted images from 4-1 min in DCE MR imaging for the prostate cancer diagnosis. Subtracted images from 4-1 min were assessed for the visual washout scores of prostate cancer and normal PZ, and compared with the time-contrast media curve patterns in each patient. A subtraction image set of DCE MRI 4-1 min mirrored time - concentration curve patterns of DCE MR imaging in prostate cancer and normal PZ. This subtraction image set can be a more simple method to display the DCE characteristics without any additional post-processing.

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