A practical clinical text on current and future applications of extra-cranial diffusion-weighted MRI by world-renowned experts.

Preface; 1. Basic physical principles of body diffusion-weighted imaging Eric E. Sigmund and Jens Jensen; 2. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of the liver Bachir Taouli and Dow-Mu Koh; 3. Diffusion-weighted imaging of diffuse renal disease and kidney transplant Frederik De Keyzer and Harriet C. Thoeny; 4. Diffusion-weighted imaging of focal renal masses Sooah Kim and Bachir Taouli; 5. Diffusion-weighted imaging of the pancreas Tomoaki Ichikawa, Ali Muhi, Utaroh Motosugi and Katushiro Sano; 6. Diffusion-weighted imaging of the prostate Sophie F. Riches and Nandita DeSouza; 7. Breast applications of diffusion-weighted imaging Yong Guo; 8. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of lymph nodes Thomas C. Kwee and Taro Takahara; 9. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of female pelvic tumors Hela Sbano and Anwar R. Padhani; 10. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of the bone marrow and the spine Andrea Baur-Melnyk and Olaf Dietrich; 11. Diffusion-weighted imaging of soft tissue tumors Masayuki Maeda; 12. Evaluation of treatment response with DWI Andriy M. Babsky, Shenghong Ju and Navin Bansal; 13. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging: future directions Dow-Mu Koh and David J. Collins; Index.