Brain 17 Vienna

MODERN IMAGING OF BRAIN TUMOURS TAKE HOME MESSAGE

• Modern imaging offers a series of extraordinary complementary tools in diagnosis, treatment and followup of brain tumours

• Unfortunately most of them still need to be validated

• Functional imaging and DTI in a clinical setting do not substitute cortical and subcortical intraoperative mapping

• Despite advancement in multimodality imaging, definitive diagnosis of brain tumours still requires histopathology and molecular analysis in the vast majority of cases.