SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING BENIGN FROM MALIGNANT CONTRAST-ENHANCED LESIONS

摘要

Methods for assessing contrast-enhanced lesions using a dynamic contrast-enhancing magnetic resonance imaging system. The kinetics of the wash-out volume of voxels in the imaged lesions are compared against a threshold value to characterize the lesion as malignant or benign. In other embodiments, the threshold value in a region of interest is compared to the values around the region of interest to size the lesion.