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Abstract #4146

Assessment of Whole-Body DWI Combined Size and ADC Criteria for Determination of Nodal Disease Status in Paediatric Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Arash Latifoltojar1, Paul Humphries1, Ananth Shankar, Stephen Daw, Stuart Taylor1, Shonit Punwani1

1Centre for Medical Imaging, UCL, London, United Kingdom

Whole body MRI is an emerging technique in oncological imaging. With recent advances in MR imaging, functional imaging such as diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) can complement the conventional T1 and T2 weighted MRI. Whole body diffusion weighted imaging (WB-DWI) could potentially be implemented as a safe alternative to the current gold standard whole body imaging, PET-CT.

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