Quantitative diffusion imaging in implanted human breast tumors

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 576-581

  Maier, Cynthia F ^a,b   Paran, Yael ^c   Bendel, Peter ^c   Rutt, Brian K ^a,b   Degani, Hadassa ^c  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

breast cancer; diffusion; magnetic resonance imaging; necrosis

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; DIFFUSION; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BREAST CANCER; DIFFUSION IMAGING; DIFFUSION MEASUREMENTS; HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELLS; NECROSIS; SOLID TUMORS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TUMOR MORPHOLOGY;

TUMORS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUDE MOUSE; TUMOR NECROSIS;

EID: 0030910438     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910370417     Document Type: Article

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