Chest Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Advances and Clinical Care.

ABSTRACT

Many promising study results as well as technical advances for chest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have demonstrated its academic and clinical potentials during the last few decades, although chest MRI has been used for relatively few clinical situations in routine clinical practice. However, the Fleischner Society as well as the Japanese Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine have published a few white papers to promote chest MRI in routine clinical practice. In this review, we present clinical evidence of the efficacy of chest MRI for 1) thoracic oncology and 2) pulmonary vascular diseases.