Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Prostate Cancer

Introduction and Outline of the thesis; Primary Staging of Prostate Cancer; Local Staging of Prostate Cancer with Endorectal MR Imaging; Correlation with Histopathology; Amyloidosis of the Seminal Vesicles Simulating Tumour Invasion of Prostatic Carcinoma on Endorectal MR Images; Pelvic Adenopathy in Prostate and Bladder Carcinoma; MR Imaging with a Three-dimensional TI-weighted Magnetization Prepared rapid Gradient-echo Sequence; Sensitivity of Frozen Section Examination fo Pelvic Lymph Nodes for Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma; Dynamic Turbo-FLASH Subtraction technique for Contrast-enhanced MR Images of the Prostate; Correlation with Histopathology; Proton MR Spectroscopy of the Normal Human Prostate with an Endorectal Coil and A Double Spin-echo Puls Sequence; In-vivo MR Spectroscopy Reveals Altered Metabolite Content in Malignant Prostate Tissue; The Current Role of MR Imaging in the Local Staging of Prostate Cancer, Future Research and Future Prospects.