TY - JOUR T1 - Recent Progress of Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Assessment of Tumor in the Body JF - Clinical Oncology and Cancer Research JO - Cancer Biol Med SP - 362 LP - 366 DO - 10.1007/s11805-009-0362-x VL - 6 IS - 5 AU - Anwen Liu AU - Qin Liao AU - Jing He AU - Xinlan Xiao Y1 - 2009/10/01 UR - http://www.cancerbiomed.org/content/6/5/362.abstract N2 - In the last couple of years, as the development of new imaging techniques, diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) has been applied increasingly in the evaluation of various diseases in the body, and has been adopted frequently as an imaging tool in clinical tumor assessment. As a completely non-invasive, highly sensitive, well-tolerated and relatively low cost technique, diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) can supply both quantitative and qualitative information at the cellular level by exploring irregular diffusion motion of water molecules within tissues in the body. In this article, we summarized the recent application and reliability of DWI in tumor evaluation including tumor detection, tumor features, and outcome of early treatment response. ER -