Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 72-76 , January 2008

Diffusion-weighted MRI in prostate cancer — comparison between single-shot fast spin echo and echo planar imaging sequences

  • Piotr Kozlowski

      Affiliations

    • Prostate Centre at Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 3Z6
    • Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5Z 1M9
    • Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5Z 4E3
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Life Sci Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3. Tel.: +1 604 827 3974; fax: +1 604 827 3973.
    • ,
  • Silvia D. Chang

      Affiliations

    • Prostate Centre at Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 3Z6
    • Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5Z 4E3
    • ,
  • S. Larry Goldenberg

      Affiliations

    • Prostate Centre at Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 3Z6
    • Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5Z 1M9

Received 25 January 2007 ,Revised 17 April 2007 ,Accepted 21 April 2007.

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PII: S0730-725X(07)00271-8

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.04.008

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 72-76 , January 2008

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