Amr Farouk Ibrahim Moustafa <br/><br/>
Diffusion weighted MR imaging for characterizing extremity soft tissue lesions /  
 التصور بالرنن المغناطسى الإنتشارى الموزون فى توصيف آفات الانسجه الرخوة فى الأطراف 
Amr Farouk Ibrahim Moustafa ; Supervised Ahmed Mohamed Shokry , Asmaa Ibrahim Abdelaziz Salama , Rania Ali Zeitoun 
 - Cairo :   Amr Farouk Ibrahim Moustafa ,   2016 
 - 110 P. :   facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Radio-diagnosis 
<br/><br/> This thesis aimed at evaluation of the role of diffusion weighted MRI in the initial characterization of the musculoskeletal soft tissue tumors and post therapeutic/post-operative evaluation of managed masses. The study included 126 patients, most of the tumors were involving their lower limbs. The DWI was obtained with b values including 0, 400 and 800 mm2/second. The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) generated by measuring identical images at different b-values and represented as ADC map from which ADC value calculated. The diagnosis was confirmed after the MRI examination by histologic biopsy according to standard histo-pathological procedures in most of the cases 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) Mr imaging Soft tissue lesions