Diffusion Tensor Imaging Can Discriminate the Primary Cell Type of Intracranial Metastases for Patients with Lung Cancer.

Bilgin, Sabriye; Gultekin, MEHMET; Yurtsever, İSMAİL; Yilmaz, TEMEL; Cesme, DİLEK; Bilgin, Melike; Topcu, Atakan; Besiroglu, Mehmet; Turk, HACI; Alkan, ALPAY; Bilgin, MEHMET

doi:10.2463/mrms.mp.2020-0183

Diffusion Tensor Imaging Can Discriminate the Primary Cell Type of Intracranial Metastases for Patients with Lung Cancer.

Bilgin S. S., Gultekin M. A., Yurtsever İ., Yilmaz T. F., Cesme D. H., Bilgin M., ...More

Magnetic resonance in medical sciences : MRMS : an official journal of Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol.21, no.3, pp.425-431, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)

Publication Type: Article / Article
Volume: 21 Issue: 3
Publication Date: 2022
Doi Number: 10.2463/mrms.mp.2020-0183
Journal Name: Magnetic resonance in medical sciences : MRMS : an official journal of Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Biotechnology Research Abstracts, EMBASE, MEDLINE
Page Numbers: pp.425-431
Keywords: brain metastases, diffusion tensor imaging, fractional anisotropy, apparent diffusion coefficient, lung cancer, FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY, BRAIN METASTASIS, GRADE, GLIOBLASTOMA, COEFFICIENT, DIAGNOSIS, DENSITY, GLIOMAS, MRI
Bezmialem Vakıf University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Purpose: Histopathological differentiation of primary lung cancer is clinically important. We aimed to investigate whether diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) parameters of metastatic brain lesions could predict the histopathological types of the primary lung cancer.