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Detection of bone metastases in non‐small cell lung cancer patients: Comparison of whole‐body diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI), whole‐body MR imaging without and with DWI, whole‐body FDG‐PET/CT, and bone scintigraphy

Daisuke Takenaka, Yoshiharu Ohno, Keiko Matsumoto, Nobukazu Aoyama, Yumiko Onishi, Hisanobu Koyama, Munenobu Nogami, Takeshi Yoshikawa, Sumiaki Matsumoto, Kazuro Sugimura

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging · 2009 · 182 citations · 33 references

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Whole-body MRI with DWI can be used for bone metastasis assessment of NSCLC patients as accurate as bone scintigraphy and/or PET/CT.

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