EXPERIENCE OF OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS OF INTEGRATED MAGNETIC RESONANCE STUDY IN DIAGNOSIS OF PROSTATE CANCER DURING THE VARIOUS PERIODS OF MEDICAL-DIAGNOSTIC PROCESS
Rich equipment of modern MR-tomographs by pulse sequences and options requires a differentiated approach to their application at examination of male pelvic organs. At high-magnetic field (1,5 T) tomograph examination surveyed 585 men with different diseases of internal genital organs in various stages of treatment and diagnostic process. There were analyzed the rates of diagnostic informativeness of the native MRI results, diffusion-weighted images method, H1-MR spectroscopy, and MRI with dynamic contrast enhancement in the diagnosis of prostate cancer, depending on the stage of the disease. Base on acquired information we propose algorithms of MRI methods in a clinical use. A differential approach to the MR-study of patients at different periods of treatment and diagnostic process allows you to use available survey procedures optimally, save doctor's and patient's time, focus radiologist attention on important issues in a particular situation.