Prostate MRI Essentials A Practical Guide for Radiologists

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This book is a basic, practical guide to performing and interpreting
state-of-the-art prostate MRI, utilizing the latest guidelines in the
field. Prostate MRI has become one of the fastest growing examinations
in the radiology practice, and this demand has continuously increased
within the past decade. Since it is relatively new, MRI of the prostate
is predominantly being performed at academic institutions, however there
is a growing demand within the lower-tier health care institutions to
offer this examination to their patients. This is an ideal guide for
radiologists who want to enhance or initiate prostate MRI service for
their referring clinicians and as a manual for technologists and those
who are in training.   

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men,
exceeded only by lung cancer. The best predictor of disease outcome lies
with correct diagnosis, which requires precise imaging and diagnostic
procedures aided by prostate MRI. Urologists, medical oncologists and
radiation oncologists all agree that multi-parametric prostate MRI is
essential for evaluation of prostate cancer.  However, the technical
aspects of prostate MR imaging are not as straightforward as for the
other imaging modalities and constantly evolving. Its small size
presents a real challenge to the radiologist, who needs to do the T2 and
diffusion weighted images and perform a dynamic contrast enhanced
sequence correctly.  These images may also need to be analyzed on an
independent workstation. Due to the absence of a current reference
manual, when a radiologist wants to establish a prostate imaging
service, he/she needs to attend dedicated prostate MR workshops or dive
into the literature search alone, only to get more confused about what
to do and how to do it.

With this book, expert authors were asked to give clear guidance to
those who want to enhance or initiate their prostate imaging service.
With this much-needed, concise, practical guidance, radiologists can
perform and interpret multi-parametric prostate MRI in a standardized
fashion, in concordance with PI-RADS v2.1 that can be applicable to all
available hardware platforms (GE, Philips, Siemens, Toshiba).
Additionally, they can perform post-processing for possible targeted
biopsy and interpret post-therapy and PET studies. The book discusses
imaging protocols (planning and prescription) and sequence parameters
with representative images for each MRI sequence. This handbook-style
practical manual can be used in the radiology reading room by those
interpreting the MR exam as a reference as well as at the MRI scanner by
the technologists as a guide. Coverage of basic prostate anatomy,
pathology, Urologists’ point of view, MRI guided radiation treatment
planning and molecular imaging is also included. Throughout the book,
authors will discuss basics, pitfalls, and provide tips in image
acquisition and interpretation, alongside several case examples.