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An experimental animal model of malignant soft-tissue tumor was established to investigate the applied value of multi-slice spiral CT perfusion imaging preliminarily. Ten New Zealand white rabbits which were implanted with VX2 tumor in either proximal thigh were subjected to CT plain scan and perfusion scan two weeks later respectively, the the original perfusion images were transmitted to AW4.0 Workstation. The functional maps and perfusion parameters including blood flow (BF), blood volume (BV), mean transit time (MTT) and permeability surface (PS) were computed and analyzed. All the values of BF, BV and PS in VX2 soft-tissue tumors were obviously higher while the MTT-values were lower than those in the normal muscular tissues significantly. It was suggested that multi-slice spiral CT perfusion imaging is an accurate, convenient and relatively safe functional imaging technique, and can give a quantitative assessment to angiogenesis and blood perfusion of soft-tissue tumors.
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ZHANG Jingfeng, male, born in 1973, Resident
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Jingfeng, Z., Renfa, W., Min, W. et al. Experimental study of multi-slice spiral CT perfusion imaging in VX2 soft-tissue tumor of rabbits. J. Huazhong Univ. Sci. Technol. [Med. Sci.] 26, 341–343 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02829570
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