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. 2015 Feb 7;13:32. doi: 10.1186/s12957-014-0431-3

Table 5.

ADC threshold and sensitivity/specificity of breast DW-MRI

Reference ADC threshold ( ×10 −3  mm 2 /s ) Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%)
Lalitha et al [23] 1.3 to 1.5/0.85 to 1.1(for benign/malignant disease) 97.2 100.0
Zhang et al. [12] 1.24/1.2 (b = 500/1,000 s/mm2) 93.0/96.0 100.0/97.0
Luo et al. [24] 1.22 88.9 87.9
Reiko et al. [16] 1.6 95.0 46.0
Marini et al. [25] 1.1 80.0 81.0
Guo et al. [26] 1.3 93.0 88.0
Woodhams et al. [27] 1.6 93.0 46.0
Ruboseva et al. [19] 1.13 86.0 86.0
Hatakenaka et al. [28] 1.48 83.9 81.3
Pereira et al. [4] 1.21 92.3 92.3
Our study 1.23 82.8 90.0

ADC, apparent diffusion coefficient; DW-MRI, diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging.