Table 1.
Summary of study characteristics for breast DTI publications to date.
| Author | Healthy
Tissue (n) |
Field Strength (T) |
b-values (s/mm2) |
Directions (n) | TE (ms) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partridge, 2010 (108) | 12 | 1.5 | 0, 600, 1000 | 6 | 71.5 | |
| Tagliafico, 2012 (109) | 60 | 3.0 | 0, 1000 | 32 | min | |
| Nissan, 2014 (71) | 45* | 3.0 | 0, 700 | 30 | 120 | |
| Wang, 2014 (121) | 7 | 1.5 | 0, 400–1000 | 6, 15, 31 | min | |
| Wiederer, 2014 (110) | 7 | 3.0 | 0, 500 | 6 | 74 | |
| Plaza, 2016 (77) | 21 | 3.0 | 0, 600 | 6 | 80–120 | |
| Malignant (n) |
Benign (n) |
|||||
| Partridge, 2010 (112) | 76 | 29 | 1.5 | 0, 600 | 6 | 71.5 |
| Baltzer, 2011 (114) | 54 | 17 | 1.5 | 0, 1000 | 6 | 70 |
| Eyal, 2012 (116) | 33 | 20 | 3.0 | 0, 700 | 30–64 | 120 |
| Cakir, 2013 (115) | 30 | 25 | 3.0 | 0, 1000 | 16 | 55 |
| Tsougos, 2014 (113) | 33 | 18 | 3.0 | 0, 600 | 6 | 63.7 |
| Wang, 2015 (119) | 64** | 0 | 1.5 | 0, 600 | 6 | min |
| Teruel, 2016 (118) | 38 | 34 | 3.0 | 0, 700 | 30 | 85 |
| Furman-Haran, 2016 (117) | 24 | 0 | 3.0 | 0, 700 | 30–64 | 90, 120 |
| Jiang, 2016 (27) | 59 | 29 | 1.5 | 0, 1000 | 6 | 90 |
*
lactating women
**
Wang 2015; 53 invasive, 11 DCIS reported separately (invasive measures only shown on plot Figure 12)
Abbreviation: min=minimum