Magnetic resonance imaging for diagnosis and neoadjuvant treatment evaluation in locally advanced rectal cancer: A pictorial review

Figure 14 Schematic and high-spatial-resolution coronal T2-weighted magnetic resonance images for each stage according to the low rectal cancer. Rectal tumors in different patients are indicated with arrows on magnetic resonance images (Adapted from ref. [27]: Nougaret S, Reinhold C, Mikhael HW, Rouanet P, Bibeau F, Brown G. The use of MR imaging in treatment planning for patients with rectal carcinoma: have you checked the “DISTANCE”? Radiology 2013; 268: 330-344).