Pretreatment dual-energy CT versus diffusion-weighted imaging for predicting pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer

BMC Med Imaging. 2026 Feb 10. doi: 10.1186/s12880-026-02219-0. Online ahead of print.

Ying Cao^#^{1

2}, Yue Cheng^#², Yao Huang^{1

2}, Xueqin Gong², Tian Li², Huifang Chen², Lihong Du², Jinfang Shi², Xiangfei Zeng², Ting Yin³, Xiaoxia Wang⁴, Jiuquan Zhang⁵

¹ School of Medicine, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China.
² Department of Radiology, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, No.181 Hanyu Road, Shapingba District, Chongqing, 400030, China.
³ MR Collaborations, Siemens Healthineers Ltd., Chengdu, China.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, No.181 Hanyu Road, Shapingba District, Chongqing, 400030, China. wangxx0531@foxmail.com.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, No.181 Hanyu Road, Shapingba District, Chongqing, 400030, China. 76256127@qq.com.

^# Contributed equally.

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Keywords: Breast neoplasms; Diffusion weighted MRI; Multidetector computed tomography; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

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