Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Detection of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer: What Urologists Need to Know. Part 2: Interpretation.

This paper provides insight into what structures of normal and abnormal prostates are visible with multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI). To detect clinically significant prostate cancer, three mpMRI “components” must be used: “anatomic” T2-weighted imaging, “cellular density” diffusion-weighted imaging, and “vascularity” dynamic contrast–enhanced MRI. Based on these images, mpMRI interpretation according to the Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System is done.