Whole body diffusion weighted imaging in the diagnosis of oncological diseases
Whole Body Diffusion Weighted Imaging (WB DWI) is a new technology in cancer diagnostics without using contrast agents and conducting MRI. WB DWI without contrast agents has high sensitivity to identify tumor entities; unlike MRI with contrast DWI identifi es the TNM stage of tumor. The received images are of good spatial resolution of the different areas of the body and may be comparable with the image of PET / CT. Thus, for patients for whom standard research methods are unacceptable because of the risk of nephropathy due to exposure to iodine in CT studies and the risk of irreversible renal fi brosis due to exposure to gadolinium in the MR study, DWI could become the method of choice.