Usefulness of Pseudocontinuous Arterial Spin-Labeling for the Assessment of Patients with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Measuring Tumor Blood Flow in the Pretreatment and Early Treatment Period.

Noriyuki Fujima D Yoshida Tomohiro Sakashita Akihiro Homma A Tsukahara Khin Khin Tha Kohsuke Kudo Hiroki Shirato

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2015)

Tumor blood flow obtained by pseudocontinuous arterial spin-labeling can be useful for the determination of local control. The combined use of the percentage change of tumor blood flow and tumor volume had particularly high diagnostic accuracy.

Keyphrases

blood flow
room temperature
density functional theory
single molecule
simultaneous determination