All About Head & Neck: MRI in Surgical Oncology
Sunrise Course
ORGANIZERS: Wei-Tang Chang, Seena Dehkharghani, Xiao-Qi (Juliana) Huang
Thursday, 09 May 2024
Room 331-332
07:00 -
08:00
Moderators: Puneet Bagga & Shanshan Jiang
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Session Number: S-Th-06
CME Credit
Session Number: S-Th-06
Overview
This four-day morning courses cover topics from acute ischemic stroke diagnosis to head and neck cancer imaging. The curriculum blends theoretical and practical insights on topics like clot characterization, cerebrovascular MR biomarkers, brain microstructure and MRI in neuropsychiatric disorders. The course aims to empower the participants with the expertise for informed diagnostics and treatment.
Target Audience
Clinicians, radiologists and MR researchers who wish to have in-depth understanding in head and neck MRI
Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
- Identify MRI techniques for diagnosing and managing head and neck conditions;
- Describe and identify MR biomarkers and imaging approaches applicable to cerebrovascular and oncological diseases; and
- Describe MRI methods for quantifying brain microstructure.
| 07:00 | | Overview of Advanced Imaging for Head & Neck Cancer: Exemplary Application for Parotid Tumor Diagnosis Jingwen Yao Keywords: Cross-organ: Cancer In this lecture, we will provide a brief overview of advanced imaging approached in the context of head and neck cancer, using the differential diagnosis of parotid tumors as an exemplary application. We will start with an introduction of parotid tumors and the clinical significance of its differential diagnosis. Following that, we will discuss the current clinical practice, focusing on the information provided by conventional MRI sequences. Then we will delve into different categories of advanced imaging techniques that have been investigated under the context of parotid tumor differential diagnosis. Lastly, we will discuss the current status and remaining challenges. |
| 07:30 |  | Advanced Imaging Techniques for Head/Neck Oncology Stefan Posse Keywords: Neuro: Brain, Contrast mechanisms: fMRI, Contrast mechanisms: Spectroscopy Extent of tumor resection (EOR) is strongly correlated with both progression-free and overall survival in both low and high grade gliomas. A tumor location in the vicinity of eloquent cortex demands precise functional mapping to make accurate assessment of risks of surgical resection versus tumor progression (and alternative treatments), which is currently based on subdural electrocortical stimulation (ECS) as the gold standard. This talk will discuss recent developments of advanced peri-surgical neuroimaging techniques to diagnose brain tumors and guide treatment, including fMRI, MRSI, hyperpolarized MRI, deuterium MRI and PET. |