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Prevalence of Brain Metastases

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From the standpoint of radiology, the brain is a unique organ, whose substance enclosed in a rather thin bone “shell” could be differentiated as gray and white matter due to its relative homogeneity and immobility as early as on images obtained using the first models of CT scanners. Subsequently, imaging techniques, particularly MRI, allowed for a more accurate visualization of cerebral structural features and better identification of pathological changes in the brain structure than with CT. Requirements of clinicians for quantitative and most importantly qualitative content of the obtained diagnostic findings are constantly growing. In terms of diagnostic requests of modern medicine, a mere statement of the fact of visualization of a focal brain lesion is definitely not enough in most cases. The actual clinical situation is such that a formal description of syntopical features of focal brain lesions is the distant past of continuously developing neuroimaging methods. Today, there is a demand for technology allowing to obtain information that brings findings of noninvasive radiation diagnostic methods as close as possible to the exact interpretation of the histologic nature of lesions, an objective assessment of the characteristics of their blood supply, etc., without any techniques with traumatic access to abnormal sites.

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