Diffusion-weighted MRI: Influence of intravoxel fat signal and breast density on breast tumor conspicuity and apparent diffusion coefficient measurements

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1215-1221

  Partridge, Savannah C ^a   Singer, Lisa ^b   Sun, Ryan ^a   Wilmes, Lisa J ^b   Klifa, Catherine S ^b   Lehman, Constance D ^a   Hylton, Nola M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC); Breast cancer; Breast density; Diffusion weighted MRI (DWI); Fat suppression

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST TUMOR; CALCULATION; CONTRAST NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 80054790738     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.07.024     Document Type: Article

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