Role of advanced magnetic resonance imaging in the assessment of malignancies of the mediastinum

Figure 2 Perfusion weighted imaging of non-invasive thymoma. A 38 year - old male with an anterior mediastinal well-defined solid nodule, without signs of local infiltration of adjacent structures. A: Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (DCE-MR) derived area under the curve parametric map reveals a significant uptake of intravenous gadolinium based contrast (white arrow); B: DCE-MR derived time intensity curve shows a moderate initial slope of enhancement with a delayed plateau and with a time to peak less than 120 s (pink curve). This is in keeping with non–invasive thymoma (stage I Masaoka–Koga). AUC: Area under the curve; DCE-MR: Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance.