Brain tumor imaging brain tumor is an abnormal and often uncontrolled growth of cells and takes up space within the cranial cavity skull it can often compress shift and or invade and damage healthy brain tissue and nerves and may interfere with normal brain function. Brain tumor imaging it is essential to be familiar with advanced mri perfusion diffusion spectroscopy and susceptibility for diagnosis of brain tumors mona shahriari md and parham moftakhar md. The nucleoside analog 3 deoxy 318 f fluorothymidine which was developed to image tumor cell proliferation has been used for imaging early treatment response and predicting clinical outcome in brain tumors 79 however there are instances where 3 deoxy 318 f fluorothymidine does not correlate with proliferation rate 80 human . The primary roles of structural mri in the initial brain tumor evaluation include determining the lesion location extent of tissue involvement and resultant mass effect upon the brain ventricular system and vasculature 7 while identifying an accurate histological tumor type can be challenging on the basis of imaging alone the correct