TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yankeelov,Thomas
AU  - Pickens,David R.
AU  - Price,Ronald R.
TI  - Quantitative MRI in cancer
T2  - Imaging in medical diagnosis and therapy
SN  - 9781439820582 (ebook : PDF)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Boca Raton
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Magnetic resonance imaging
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcsh
N1  - "A Taylor & Francis book."; Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. Physical basis of magnetic resonance imaging -- pt. 2. Characterizing tissue properties with endogenous contrast mechanisms -- pt. 3. Characterizing tissue properties with exogenous contrast agents -- pt. 4. Image processing in cancer -- pt. 5. Emerging trends; Also available in print edition
N2  - "Recent years have seen a tremendous explosion in both the number and quantity of imaging techniques that can be applied in the quantitative characterization of cancer. These techniques have come from all fields of non-invasive, in vivo medical imaging including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), optical imaging, computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and ultrasound. Relevant techniques that have been developed report on, for example, tumor cellularity, vessel perfusion and permeability, hypoxic fractions, as well as cellular and molecular signatures. It is a reasonable hypothesis that characterization of tissue status can offer increased sensitivity and specificity when diagnosing and grading tumors. Furthermore, as many current anti-cancer drugs are designed to alter these specific tumor characteristics, imaging metrics designed to report on those phenomena promise to offer improved methods of planning treatment as well as assessing the response of tumors to treatment"--Provided by publisher
UR  - http://marc.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9781439820582
ER  -