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Imaging of intracranial tumours

¹ Department of Radiology, Hope Hospital, Stott Lane, Salford, Greater Manchester M6 8HD and ² Section of Academic Neuroradiology, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK

• Intracranial tumours are an important cause of morbidity and mortality.
  
• New therapeutic modalities such as image-guided surgery and anti-angiogenic agents are becoming increasingly reliant on high quality imaging for diagnostic evaluation, treatment planning and post-treatment follow-up.
  
• CT and MRI are the mainstays of imaging in current practice and can provide adequate diagnostic specificity and anatomical information in the majority of cases.
  
• PET and advanced MR techniques such as perfusion, permeability and diffusion imaging are able to provide novel, quantifiable indices of tumour physiology, which are proving increasingly important in tumour assessment and management.
  

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