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Magnetic Resonance As a Cancer Imaging Biomarker

From the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA

Address reprint requests to A. Gregory Sorensen, MD, Building 149, Room 2301, 13th St, Charlestown, MA 02129; e-mail: sorensen{at}nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Cancer is a diverse disease with many manifestations. Magnetic resonance (MR) has a wide range of sensitivities, and therefore has often been used to study cancer in humans in numerous different ways, most typically with MR spectroscopy and MR imaging. This article is not an exhaustive catalog of the use of MR in cancer, but will briefly highlight some of the many promising MR methods that have been developed, proposed, or used to focus on the problem of detecting and characterizing cancer, its treatments, and adverse effects.

Author's disclosures of potential conflicts of interest are found at the end of this article.

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