Radiation-induced parotid changes in oropharyngeal cancer patients: the role of early functional imaging and patient-/treatment-related factors.

Simona MarziAlessia FarnetiAntonello VidiriFrancesca Di GiulianoLaura MarucciFilomena SpasianoIrene TerrenatoGiuseppe Sanguineti

Published in: Radiation oncology (London, England) (2018)

Both IVIM-DWI and DCE-MRI can help to detect/predict early (during treatment) and shortly after treatment completion the parotid shrinkage. They may contribute to clarify the correlations between volumetric changes of parotid glands and patient-/treatment-related variables by assessing individual microcapillary perfusion and tissue diffusivity.

Keyphrases

radiation induced
contrast enhanced
case report
high resolution
diffusion weighted imaging
computed tomography
mass spectrometry