H.-U. Kauczor (Ed.)

2009

For a long time the lung has been regarded as the black hole in MRI. In the 1980s courageous physicists and radiologists have tried to investigate different lung diseases using MRI, but they could neither produce convincing image quality within a reasonable examination time nor generate a substantial clinical impact. MRI was accepted for some minor clinical indications, such as mediastinal tumors and chest wall invasion or Pancoast situation in lung cancer.