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Abstract #0676

4D ECHO PLANAR CORRELATED SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING AND DWI OF BREAST CANCER

Rajakumar Nagarajan 1 , Neil Wilson 1 , Nanette DeBruhl 1 , Brian Burns 1 , Melissa Joines 1 , Maithili Gopalakrishnan 1 , Fausto Rendon 1 , Lawrence W Bassett 1 , and M.Albert Thomas 1

1 Radiological Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Early detection and diagnosis are essential for successful treatment of breast cancer. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) can provide high specificity for distinguishing benign from malignant lesions. The four dimensional (4D) echo-planar correlated spectroscopic imaging (EP-COSI) enables full slice coverage of the breast facilitating recording of multi-voxel based two-dimensional (2D) MRS than the single-voxel based localized correlated spectroscopy (L-COSY). The 4D EP-COSI offers improved spectral dispersion and sensitivity compared with 1D MRS data. Decreased ADC values derived from diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) can be correlated with increased choline and decreased lipids quantified by the EP-COSI technique.

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