Published in Telemedicine Business Week, November 15th, 2006
Study 1: Dynamic MRI (dMRI) could be used to monitor lung motion and tumor mobility in lung cancer patients.
According to a study from Germany, "A frequent side effect after radiotherapy of lung tumors is a decrease of pulmonary function accompanied by dyspnea due to developing lung fibrosis. The aim of this study was to monitor lung motion as a correlate of pulmonary function and intrathoracic tumor mobility before and after radiotherapy (RT) using dMRI."
"Thirty-five patients with stage I non-small-cell lung carcinoma were examined using...
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