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. 2022 Sep 27;57(2):370–386. doi: 10.1002/jmri.28431

FIGURE 13.

FIGURE 13

Example of early assessment of the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) using diffusion weighted imaging (DWI). examinations; (a–c) = pre‐NAC examinations; (d–f) = early assessment examination after two cycles of cytotoxic NAC. (a and d) = dynamic post‐contrast images; (b and e) = DWI images; (c and f) = ADC maps. A 37‐year‐old patient with a G3, triple negative invasive ductal carcinoma of the right breast (white and black arrows). Early assessment showed a reduction of tumor size along with increase of signal intensity on ADC maps (c) compared to the pre‐treatment examination (f). Pathology after surgical resection revealed pathological complete response. Reprinted under a Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) license from: Romeo V, Accardo G, Perillo T, Basso L, Garbino N, Nicolai E, Maurea S, Salvatore M. Assessment and Prediction of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer: A Comparison of Imaging Modalities and Future Perspectives. Cancers (Basel). 2021;13(14):3521.