Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Assessment of Breast Lesions With Diffusion-Weighted MRI: Comparing the Use of Different b Values

Assessment of Breast Lesions With Diffusion-Weighted MRI: Comparing the Use of Different b Values
Fernanda Philadelpho Arantes Pereira, Gabriela Martins, Eduardo Figueiredo, Marisa Nassar Aidar Domingues, Romeu Cortes Domingues, Lea Mirian Barbosa da Fonseca, and Emerson Leandro Gasparetto
AJR 2009;193:1030-1035
Link to Journal
http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/193/4/1030

Diffusion-weighted imaging is a potential resource as a coadjutant of MRI in the differentiation between benign and malignant lesions. Such imaging can be performed without a significant increase in examination time, especially because it can be done with lower b values

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