Magnetic resonance imaging for lung cancer: a state-of-the-art review

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and imaging techniques such as chest radiography, computed tomography (CT), positron emission (PET), magnetic resonance (MRI) play an important role in its diagnosis, staging, treatment planning, post-operative surveillance, response evaluation. Pulmonary MRI can non-invasively visualize structural functional abnormalities lungs without using ionizing radiation, although it has been suggested that less clinical utility than CT, PET/CT for thoracic diseases, especially lung diseases. With recent advances related to pulse sequences, pulmonary become practicable expanding number situations. This review article focuses on discusses applications detection, pre-operative evaluation, evaluation cancer.