Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 2 , Pages 89-96 , March 2010

Diffusion-weighted MRI evaluation of breast cancer extension

  • Qiu Long-Hua

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
    • ,
  • Xiao Qin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
    • ,
  • Yang Wen-Tao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
    • ,
  • Tang Feng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
    • ,
  • Shen Kun-Wei

      Affiliations

    • Department of Breast Surgery, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
    • ,
  • Wu Bin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
    • ,
  • Gu Ya-Jia

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Fudan University, 270 DongAn Road, Shanghai 200032, China. Tel.: +86 21 64175590 6034; fax: +86 21 64433384.

Received 30 April 2009 ,Accepted 6 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.09.002

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 2 , Pages 89-96 , March 2010

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