Ovarian cancer has a high mortality rate as it is commonly diagnosed in advanced stages. Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) has shown great promise in detecting cancer in multiple other organs. However, the diffusion characteristics of premenopausal ovaries are difficult to differentiate from malignancies with standard diffusion techniques. In this work we characterized the diffusion properties of ovaries in a group of young women to inform the acquisition and post-processing of DWI to improve ovarian cancer diagnosis.
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