Multiparametric Imaging Patterns of Untreated Bone Metastases

Outline: To briefly recap the process of bone metastasis formation and the biological mechanisms for osteoblastic and osteolytic malignant lesions To explain the biological and physical causes for discordance in the visibility of bone metastases To subclassify metastatic bone disease according to appearances on MRI and CT scans relating the patterns seen to the underlying biology There is a companion lecture on bone marrow biology which you should look at first: