Guest-Editorial on The Way of Water Excitation: New Fat Suppression Method for Diffusion-Weighted Breast Imaging at 3 Tesla.

Today, imaging has become an indispensable tool for noninvasive diagnosis, therapy planning, and follow-up of tumor diseases. The potential of modern imaging techniques goes far beyond the purely morphological representation of the pathologically altered tissue. While tumor-related neoangiogenesis, can be assessed in both computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an intravenous contrast agent, diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in MRI allows conclusions to be drawn about the microstructure and cell density of the underlying tissue ( 1 García-Figueiras R. Baleato-González S. Padhani A.R. et al. How clinical imaging can assess cancer biology. Insights Imaging. 2019; 10 (Mar 4, PMID: 30830470; PMCID: PMC6399375.): 28https://doi.org/10.1186/s13244-019-0703-0 Crossref PubMed Scopus (55) Google Scholar ). Combining information on morphology, angiogenesis, and cell density in one examination leads to significant improvement in diagnostic accuracy when assessing tumorous lesions. Similar advantages have been demonstrated for multiparametric imaging of the prostate, among others, which has become indispensable in the diagnosis of prostate cancer ( 2 Goh V. PI-RADS and multiparametric MRI: the shape of things to come for prostate cancer. Radiology. 2023; 307e230643https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.230643 Crossref Scopus (1) Google Scholar ).