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Table 3 Technical scan parameters

From: Factors affecting the value of diffusion-weighted imaging for identifying breast cancer patients with pathological complete response on neoadjuvant systemic therapy: a systematic review

First author

Year

B0-field (T))/vendor

Reported coil specification

(Acquired/reconstructed) voxel size (mm)

FOV (mm)

TR/TE (ms)

b values (s/mm2)

Scan moment (s) used for review analysis

Woodhams [64]

2010

1.5 (GE)

Dedicated 8-channel

2.1 × 1.1 × 5

340 × 255

9500/89 (min)

0, 1500

Pre

Tozaki [40]

2010

1.5 (Siemens)

Breast matrix coil

3 × 3 × 3

330

8000/96

500, 1000, 1500, 2000, 3000

Pre, 1 cycle

Fangberget [65]

2011

1.5 (Siemens)

Phased array bi-lateral

1.9 × 1.9 × 4

360 × 195

10,300/126

100, 250, 800

Pre, 4 cycles

Shin [26]

2012

1.5 (Siemens)

4-or 16-channel

3.1 × 1.5 × 3

340

8500/80

0, 100, 500, 800, 1000

Pre, post

Fujimoto [66]

2014

1.5 (Philips)

4 element phased array (SENSE-body)

1.4 × 1.4 × 5

360 × 216

3783/64

0, 800

Post

Hahn [67]

2014

1.5 (GE), 3.0 (Philips)

Surface breast coil

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

1.5 T: 0, 750

Post

       

3.0 T: 0, 1000 and 0, 800

 

Bufi [17]

2015

1.5 (GE)

4-channel

FOV 320–340 -> choosing 330: 1.3 × 1.3 × 4

320–340

5150/min (not specified)

0, 1000

Pre

Li [44]

2015

3.0 (Philips)

n.r.

1.3 × 1.3 × 5

192 × 192

(1840–3593)/(43–60)a

Different combinationsa

Pre, 1 cycle

Liu [16]

2015

3.0 (Philips)

Phased array bilateral 8-channel

2.8 × 1.9 × 4

340

7099/51

0, 800

Pre, post

Che [19]

2016

3.0 (GE)

Phased array 8-channel

2.5 × 2 × 5

320 × 320

2400/62.1

0, 10, 20, 30, 50, 70, 100, 150, 200, 400, 800, 1000

Pre, 2 cycles

Bedair [20]

2017

3.0 (GE)

Dedicated 8-channel phased array coil

2.7 × 2.7 × 4

350 × 350

5000/77b

0, 30, 60, 90, 120, 300, 600, 900

Pre, 2 cycles

Minarikova [59]

2017

3.0 (Siemens)

Bilateral breast 4

1.4 × 1.4 × 5

n.r.

5800/68

0 and 850

Pre, 2, 3 & 4, 5 cycles

   

1H-channels

     

Santamaria [27]

2017

1.5 (GE)

4-channel breast surface coil (GE)

2.4 × 2.4 × 4

Aera: 360 × 270

Aera: 6500/66

Aera: 50, 700

Pre, post

  

1.5 (Siemens)

16-channel breast surface coil (Siemens)

 

Signa: 320 × 320

Signa: 8000/65

Signa: 0, 700

 

Gallivanone [21]

2017

1.5 (Philips)

7-channel

1.4 × 1.4 × 3

310 × 310

10,000/66

0, 900

Pre

Yuan [22]

2018

3.0 (GE)

Phased array 8-channel

2.3 × 1.6 × 5

300 × 250

2400/62

0, 300, 600, 1000

Pre, 1 cycle (but multiple in full-text)

Ramirez-Galván [25]

2018

1.5 (GE)

Bilateral 8-channel

2.5 × 2.5 × 3

320

4825 (3000–6000) /87.9

0, 700

Pre, 1, 2, 3 cycles, post

Partridge [23]

2018

1.5, Philips, 3.0 Siemens, GE

Dedicated RF-coil

1.88 × 1.88 × 4c

300–360

> 4000/min

0, 100, 600, 800

Pre, 3 weeks, 12 weeks, post

Kim [53]

2018

3.0 (Siemens)

Dedicated surface breast coil

1.77 × 0.89 × 4

340 × 170

5600/55

0, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 300, 500, 800

Pre, 2 cycles

Zhang [24]

2018

3.0 (Philips)

Dedicated 4-channel array

1.25 × 1.25 × 3

230 × 240

2681/82

0, 800

Pre, 2 cycles

Pereira [18]

2019

1.5 (GE, Philips)

Dedicated 8-channel

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

0, 750

Pre, 1 cycle, post

  1. TE echo time, TR repetition time, FOV field-of-view
  2. aDifferent TR/TE and b-value combinations (0, 500 s/mm2 or 0, 600 s/mm2 or 50, 600 s/mm2)
  3. bIn full-text TE = 5.0 ms → within review interpreted as seconds
  4. cDefined as range, here chosen for max FOV and max acquired matrix and min slice thickness