Special issue on prostate imaging.
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We are delighted to have the opportunity to bring together this Clinical Radiology special issue focused on prostate imaging. It is fascinating to consider how the prostatic diagnostic pathway has evolved in recent years, with radiology now at the forefront and with the UK leading the world in providing MRI prior to initial prostate biopsy. Prostate MRI has evolved tremendously from the initial excitement of T2-weighted imaging differentiating prostate zonal anatomy in the early 1980s [1]. Early attempts at tumour detection with spectroscopy were then supplemented by dynamic-contrast enhanced (DCE) in the 1990s [2, 3], with endorectal coils going from being essential to improve signal, to failing out of favour due to cost and issues of patient comfort. However, it was the “game changing” introduction of diffusion-weighted (DWI) sequences in more recent times [4] made the case for multiparametric (mp) MRI a compelling one.
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1365-229X