A single MRI scan was performed with a 3 T MR unit (Achieva; Philips Healthcare, Best, The Netherlands), echo planar sequence; TE 40 ms; TR 1618 ms; flip angle 75º; matrix size 128 × 128 mm2; slice thickness 4 mm; dynamic acquisitions 40. The pre-processing of images for ...
For pre-operative T stagingMRI scans had better performance accuracy than CT and AUS; CT scanners using ≥4 detectors and multi-planar reformatted (MPR) images had higher staging performances than scanners with <4 detectors and axial images only.For pre-operative N stagingPET had the lowest sen...