Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Diffusion-weighted Imaging Improves the Diagnostic Accuracy of Conventional 3.0-T Breast MR Imaging

Diffusion-weighted Imaging Improves the Diagnostic Accuracy of Conventional 3.0-T Breast MR Imaging
Riham H. EI Khouli, Michael A. Jacobs, Sarah D. Mezban, Peng Huang, Ihab R. Kamel, Katarzyna J. Macura, and David A. Bluemke
Radiology 2010;256 64-73

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Adding quantitative diffusion-weighted imaging to the conventional MR imaging protocol resulted in significant diagnostic improvement.

DW imaging with glandular tissue–normalized ADC assessment improves the characterization of breast lesions beyond the characterization achieved with conventional 3D T1-weighted and dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging at 3.0 T

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