N.m.r. relaxation and images of human breast tumours in vitro.

Autor: Bovée WM, Creyghton JH, Getreuer KW, Korbee D, Lobregt S, Smidt J, Wind RA, Lindeman J, Smid L, Posthuma H
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences [Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci] 1980 Jun 25; Vol. 289 (1037), pp. 535-6.
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1980.0072
Abstrakt: It is found that fat and non-fatty tissue in dissected samples of the mamma differ in their T1/T2 ratios. This opens the possibility of locating tumours by n.m.r. imaging, because they have a lower fat content than their surroundings. By means of a sensitive point method, samples were scanned with a resolution of about 0.4 mm X 0.4 mm. The similarity between the shape of a tumour in an n.m.r. and in an X-ray image of a thin section of mamma tissue is quite convincing.
Databáze: MEDLINE