In vivo diffusion-weighted MRI of the breast: Potential for lesion characterization

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 693-704

  Sinha, Shantanu ^a,b   Lucas Quesada, Flora Anne ^a   Sinha, Usha ^a   DeBruhl, Nanette ^a   Bassett, Lawrence W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast diffusion weighted MRI; Breast lesion characterization; Perfusion effects in diffusion weighted imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0036270777     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.10116     Document Type: Article

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