Abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a commonly used imaging technique, has been extensively investigated in lung cancer diagnosis and staging. Many studies have demonstrated that MRI can be used for the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant pulmonary nodules and for the screening of lung cancer; it also has important value in TNM staging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with equivalent sensitivity and specificity to ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose (¹⁸F-FDG) PET-CT, which suggests that MRI can be used as an alternative imaging modality in noninvasive diagnosis and staging of NSCLC.

Key words: Lung neoplasms, Magnetic resonance imaging, Diagnosis, Neoplasm staging