Advanced magnetic resonance imaging modalities for breast cancer diagnosis: An overview of recent findings and perspectives

D Shahbazi-Gahrouei, F Aminolroayaei, H Nematollahi… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women and the leading cause of death.
Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) are advanced …

A review of quantitative diffusion-weighted MR imaging for breast cancer: towards noninvasive biomarker

FF Yao, Y Zhang - Clinical Imaging, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is an important adjunct to conventional breast
MRI and shows promise as a noninvasive biomarker of breast cancer in multiple clinical …

Discrimination between human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-low-expressing and HER2-overexpressing breast cancers: a comparative study of four MRI …

C Mao, L Hu, W Jiang, Y Qiu, Z Yang, Y Liu, M Wang… - European …, 2024 - Springer
Objectives To determine the value of conventional DWI, continuous-time random walk
(CTRW), fractional order calculus (FROC), and stretched exponential model (SEM) in …

Improved characterization of diffusion in normal and cancerous prostate tissue through optimization of multicompartmental signal models

CC Conlin, CH Feng… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Multicompartmental modeling outperforms conventional diffusion‐weighted
imaging (DWI) in the assessment of prostate cancer. Optimized multicompartmental models …

Discrimination of breast cancer from healthy breast tissue using a three-component diffusion-weighted MRI model

MMS Andreassen, AE Rodríguez-Soto, CC Conlin… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Abstract Purpose: Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) is a contrast-free modality that has
demonstrated ability to discriminate between predefined benign and malignant breast …

[HTML][HTML] Recommendations for improved reproducibility of ADC derivation on behalf of the Elekta MRI-linac consortium image analysis working group

ALH Bisgaard, R Keesman, AL van Lier… - Radiotherapy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and purpose The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), a potential imaging
biomarker for radiotherapy response, needs to be reproducible before translation into …

Restriction spectrum imaging with elastic image registration for automated evaluation of response to neoadjuvant therapy in breast cancer

MMS Andreassen, S Loubrie, MW Tong, L Fang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC)
are currently used to evaluate treatment response of breast cancer. The purpose of the …

Characterization of the diffusion signal of breast tissues using multi‐exponential models

AE Rodríguez‐Soto, MMS Andreassen… - Magnetic resonance …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Restriction spectrum imaging (RSI) decomposes the diffusion‐weighted MRI signal
into separate components of known apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs). The number of …

A multicompartmental diffusion model for improved assessment of whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging data and evaluation of prostate cancer bone metastases

CC Conlin, CH Feng, LA Digma… - Radiology: Imaging …, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To develop a multicompartmental signal model for whole-body diffusion-weighted
imaging (DWI) and apply it to study the diffusion properties of normal tissue and metastatic …

Effects of echo time on IVIM quantifications of locally advanced breast cancer in clinical diffusion‐weighted MRI at 3 T

L Egnell, NP Jerome, MMS Andreassen… - NMR in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of echo time dependence in
IVIM quantification of the pseudo‐diffusion fraction in breast cancer and whether correcting …