Diffusion imaging of brain tumors

SE Maier, Y Sun, RV Mulkern - NMR in biomedicine, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
MRI offers a tremendous armamentarium of different methods that can be employed in brain
tumor characterization. MR diffusion imaging has become a widely accepted method to …

[HTML][HTML] Pitfalls in the neuroimaging of glioblastoma in the era of antiangiogenic and immuno/targeted therapy–detecting illusive disease, defining response

RY Huang, MR Neagu, DA Reardon, PY Wen - Frontiers in neurology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma, the most common malignant primary brain tumor in adults is a devastating
diagnosis with an average survival of 14–16 months using the current standard of care …

Gliomas: Histogram Analysis of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Maps with Standard- or High-b-Value Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging—Correlation with Tumor Grade

Y Kang, SH Choi, YJ Kim, KG Kim, CH Sohn, JH Kim… - Radiology, 2011 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To explore the role of histogram analysis of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC)
maps based on entire tumor volume data in determining glioma grade and to evaluate the …

Diffusion-weighted imaging of the breast: principles and clinical applications

R Woodhams, S Ramadan, P Stanwell, S Sakamoto… - Radiographics, 2011 - pubs.rsna.org
Diffusion-weighted imaging provides a novel contrast mechanism in magnetic resonance
(MR) imaging and has a high sensitivity in the detection of changes in the local biologic …

Computed diffusion-weighted MR imaging may improve tumor detection

MD Blackledge, MO Leach, DJ Collins, DM Koh - Radiology, 2011 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To describe computed diffusion weighted (DW) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging
as a method for obtaining high-b-value images from DW MR imaging performed at lower b …

High-b-Value Diffusion-Weighted Imaging at 3 T to Detect Prostate Cancer: Comparisons Between b Values of 1,000 and 2,000 s/mm2

CK Kim, BK Park, B Kim - American Journal of …, 2010 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to investigate the diagnostic performance of 3-T
MRI of the prostate using diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with high b values (1,000 and …

Differentiation of true progression from pseudoprogression in glioblastoma treated with radiation therapy and concomitant temozolomide: comparison study of …

HH Chu, SH Choi, I Ryoo, SC Kim, JA Yeom, H Shin… - Radiology, 2013 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To explore the role of histogram analysis of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC)
maps obtained at standard-and high-b-value (1000 and 3000 sec/mm2, respectively) …

Lymphomas and glioblastomas: differences in the apparent diffusion coefficient evaluated with high b-value diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging at 3 T

A Doskaliyev, F Yamasaki, M Ohtaki, Y Kajiwara… - European journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: As the usefulness of the apparent diffusion coefficient
(ADC) obtained from diffusion-weighted images (DWI) for the differential diagnosis between …

B-value dependence of DTI quantitation and sensitivity in detecting neural tissue changes

ES Hui, MM Cheung, KC Chan, EX Wu - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Recently, remarkable success has been demonstrated in using MR diffusion tensor imaging
(DTI) to characterize white matter. Water diffusion in complex biological tissue microstructure …

The utility of diffusion MRI with quantitative ADC measurements for differentiating high-grade from low-grade cerebral gliomas: evidence from a meta-analysis

L Zhang, Z Min, M Tang, S Chen, X Lei… - Journal of the neurological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of this meta-analysis was to predict the grades of cerebral gliomas using
quantitative apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values. Materials and methods A …