Prostate MRI: access to and current practice of prostate MRI in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

MRI of the prostate has increasingly become more important in clinical medicine because of the risk of over-detection of low-grade, low-volume prostate cancer, as well as because of the poor sampling of transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy in high-risk patients. We sought to determine the access, imaging protocols, and indications for MRI imaging of the prostate in the United States.

Methods

A brief survey was sent through mailing lists to members of the Society of Abdominal Radiology and Texas Radiological Society.

Results

Thirty-six academic centers responded to the survey, 88.9% of which routinely perform prostate MRI. Nine centers routinely performed imaging at 1.5T with an endorectal coil (25%), 11 performed at 3.0T without an endorectal coil (31

SUBMITTER: Leake JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4169888 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature