TY - BOOK AU - Amr Farouk Ibrahim Moustafa AU - Ahmed Mohamed Shokry , AU - Asmaa Ibrahim Abdelaziz Salama , AU - Rania Ali Zeitoun , TI - Diffusion weighted MR imaging for characterizing extremity soft tissue lesions / PY - 2016/// CY - Cairo : PB - Amr Farouk Ibrahim Moustafa , KW - Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) KW - Mr imaging KW - Soft tissue lesions N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Radio-diagnosis; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -