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Fig. 3 | BMC Cancer

Fig. 3

From: Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in malignant pleural mesothelioma: prediction of outcome based on DCE-MRI measurements in patients undergoing cytotoxic chemotherapy

Fig. 3

An example of a patient with long PFS and OS. Pre-treatment and intra-treatment DCE-MRI (a and b), a post-contrast T1 weighted-image is shown together with ET-calculated Ktrans, ve and kep parametric maps. Regions of interest (ROI) are drawn around the MPM periphery on post-contrast T1 weighted-image. The pre-treatment median values were: Ktrans = 0.22 min-1, ve = 40 ml/100ml, and kep = 0.54 min-1 and the intra-treatment values were Ktrans = 0.18 min-1, ve = 48 ml/100ml, and kep = 0.39 min-1. The parametric maps show MPM spatial heterogeneity regarding its vascular properties

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