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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2018

Improvements in High Resolution Laryngeal Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Preoperative Transoral Laser Microsurgery and Radiotherapy Considerations in Early Lesions.

Thomas Ruytenberg, Berit M Verbist, Jordi Vonk-Van Oosten, Eleftheria Astreinidou, Elisabeth V Sjögren, Andrew G Webb

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. European Laryngological Society consensus statement on optimal monitoring schedules after treatment for early glottic cancer: a risk-stratification.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  2. Imaging for Laryngeal Malignancies: Guidelines for Clinicians.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2023
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  3. Concordance between head and neck MRI and histopathology in detecting laryngeal subsite invasion among patients with laryngeal cancer.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2023
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6 authors.

Thomas RuytenbergC.J. Gorter Center for High Field MRI, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Berit M VerbistDepartment of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Jordi Vonk-Van OostenDepartment of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Eleftheria AstreinidouDepartment of Radiotherapy, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Elisabeth V SjögrenDepartment of ENT - Head and Neck Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Andrew G WebbC.J. Gorter Center for High Field MRI, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the benefits, limitations, and contraindications of transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) in glottic carcinoma treatments become better defined, pretreatment imaging has become more important to assess the case-specific suitability of TLM and to predict functional outcomes both for treatment consideration and patient counseling. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the preferred modality to image such laryngeal tumors, even though imaging the larynx using MRI can be difficult. The first challenge is that there are no commercial radiofrequency (RF) coils that are specifically designed for imaging the larynx, and performance in terms of coverage and signal-to-noise ratio is compromised using general-purpose RF coils. Second, motion in the neck region induced by breathing, swallowing, and vessel pulsation can induce severe image artifacts, sometimes rendering the images unusable. In this paper, we design a dedicated RF coil array, which allows high quality high-resolution imaging of the larynx. In addition, we show that introducing respiratory-triggered acquisition improves the diagnostic quality of the images by minimizing breathing and swallowing artifacts. Together, these developments enable robust, essentially artifact-free images of the full larynx with an isotropic resolution of 1 mm to be acquired within a few minutes.

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glottic carcinomaimaging protocolslaryngeal imagingmagnetic resonance imagingradiofrequency coil arraystransoral laser microsurgery

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PMCPMC5997776

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