Imaging of head and neck (HN) cancer is a challenge for many radiologists and largely due
to the challenging anatomy in a small volume of the body. Additionally, multiple pathologies …

Few patients with head and neck cancer go through diagnosis, staging, treatment, and
surveillance without at least one imaging study to aid in each one of these steps. With the …

Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission
tomography (PET) and the hybrid modality of PET/CT are sensitive and reliable tools for …

While anatomic imaging (CT and MR imaging) of HNC is focused on diagnosing and/or
characterizing the disease, defining its local extent, and evaluating distant spread, accurate …

Head and neck cancer (HNC) is the fifth most frequent cancer worldwide and associated
with significant morbidity. Along with clinical examination and endoscopic evaluation …

Head and neck cancer affects more than 11,000 new patients per year in the UK 1 and
imaging has an important role in the diagnosis, treatment planning, and assessment, and …

Head and neck (HN) cancer is one of the major types of cancer, affecting 50,000 new
patients in the United States every year. 1 HN cancers typically originate from the mucosal …

OBJECTIVE. Our purpose is to illustrate the pathophysiologic, physical, and technical
principles of MDCT perfusion imaging of head and neck tumors. The rationale for data …

MR imaging has established itself as a sensitive tool for evaluation of the head and neck
region. Nevertheless, conventional MR imaging is sometimes not specific in the evaluation …

Opinion statement The goals of imaging in head and neck cancer are to establish tumor
extent and size, to assess nodal disease, to evaluate for perineural tumor spread, and to …