Clinical radiology
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To investigate the value of new diffusion-weighted imaging applications in the characterisation of suspicious breast lesions with emphasis on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and fibre tractography (FT). ⋯ DTI and FT are new applications of DWI. They show promising results for the evaluation of suspicious breast masses and can distinguish between benign and malignant breast lesions with statistical significance approaching contrast-enhanced MRI, which is considered the imaging reference standard for characterising breast lesions.
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To enable more individualised treatment of endometrial cancer, improved methods for preoperative tumour characterization are warranted. Texture analysis is a method for quantification of heterogeneity in images, increasingly reported as a promising diagnostic tool in oncological imaging, but largely unexplored in endometrial cancer AIM: To explore whether tumour texture features from preoperative computed tomography (CT) are related to known prognostic histopathological features and to outcome in endometrial cancer patients. ⋯ CT texture analysis yields promising imaging markers in endometrial cancer and may supplement other imaging techniques in providing a more refined preoperative risk assessment that may ultimately enable better tailored treatment strategies.