Figure 6.

Baseline ${\text{T}}_1$, post contrast ${\text{T}}_1$ and ECV in two healthy controls and a patient. In control 1 (top row) poor CA uptake with only 6% ${\text{T}}_1$ decrease and consequently extremely low average ECV (0.06 ± 0.10) were observed. In control 2 (center row) the average ${\text{T}}_1$ decrease in the fibrograndular tissue was 42% but with a non-uniform pattern, resulting in regions with higher ECV of 0.29 ± 0.24 (white arrows) where the uptake was greater, and regions with lower ECV of $0.03\pm 0.03$ in regions with lower uptake. The ${\text{T}}_1$ decrease in the lesion of a 51-years-old triple negative breast cancer patient (bottom row) was 67% which resulted into mean ECV in the lesion of $0.28\pm 0.12.$