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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2016 Sep 30;45(2):337–355. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25479

Table 2.

Summary of study characteristics for breast IVIM publications to date.

Author Malignant
(n)		 Benign
(n)		 Healthy
Tissue
(n)		 Field
Strength
(T)		 b-values (s/mm2) # b-
values		 TE
(ms)
Sigmund, 2011
(124)		 24 20 3.0 0, 30, 70, 100, 150, 200, 300,
400, 500, 800		 10 103
Bokacheva, 2013
(125)		 26 14 3.0 0, 30, 60, 90, 120, 400, (450
in 7 cases), 600, 800, 1000		 9 56.4
Liu, 2013 (126) 40 71 * 39 1.5 0, 10, 20, 30, 50, 70, 100,
150, 200, 400, 600, 1000		 12 66
Iima, 2014 (132) 15 8 3.0 3, 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, 70, 100,
200, 400, 600, 800, 1000,
1500, 2000, 2500		 16 77
Suo, 2015 (128) 30 3.0  0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 500,
800		 7 67
Panek, 2015 (130) 21 5 3.0 0, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400,
600, 800, 1000, 1150		 10 79
Dijkstra, 2015 (129) 165 41 1.5 0, 50, 200, 500, 800, 1000 5 91
Cho, 2015 (96) 50 12 3.0 0, 30, 70, 100, 150, 200, 300,
400, 500, 800		 10 103
Kim, 2016 (131) 275 3.0 0,30, 70, 100, 150, 200, 300,
400, 500, 800		 10 43
*

includes 30 cysts