Figure 6.
Number of annual publications on the application of diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) for therapeutic response assessment. Yearly evaluation showed a growing increase in the number of studies demonstrating the efficacy of DW-MRI for cancer response to treatment. The search was performed on Pubmed using the following criteria [((diffusion OR ADC OR “apparent diffusion coefficient”) AND MRI AND response) NOT (stroke OR review)]. Individual references were manually evaluated.