Abstract #0863

In vivo imaging of mean cell size and density of human breast tumors

Hua Li^1,2, Lori R. Arlinghaus^1,2, A. Bapsi Chakravarthy³, Vandana G. Abramson², John C. Gore^1,2, and Junzhong Xu^1,2

¹Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, ²Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, ³Department of Radiation Onology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States

We report a new MRI method termed IMPULSED (Imaging Microstructural Parameters Using Limited Spectrally Edited Diffusion) to quantitatively characterize mean cell size and density in solid tumors simultaneously and the first application of this method in breast cancer patients.

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