Diffusion MRI of the breast: Current status and future directions

M Iima, M Honda, EE Sigmund… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI) is increasingly being incorporated into routine breast MRI
protocols in many institutions worldwide, and there are abundant breast DWI indications …

[HTML][HTML] Diffusion-weighted MRI of the liver: challenges and some solutions for the quantification of apparent diffusion coefficient and intravoxel incoherent motion

YXJ Wang, H Huang, CJ Zheng, BH Xiao… - American Journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is sensitive to the mobility of water molecule at cellular
and macromolecular level, much smaller than the spatial resolution of the images. It is …

Age and gender dependence of liver diffusion parameters and the possibility that intravoxel incoherent motion modeling of the perfusion component is constrained by …

H Huang, CJ Zheng, LF Wang… - NMR in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to establish reference values for middle‐aged subjects and to
investigate the age and gender dependence of liver diffusion MRI parameters. The IVIM type …

Comparison of tri‐exponential decay versus bi‐exponential decay and full fitting versus segmented fitting for modeling liver intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion MRI

O Chevallier, N Zhou, JP Cercueil, J He… - NMR in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To determine whether bi‐or tri‐exponential models, and full or segmented fittings,
better fit the intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) imaging signal of healthy livers. Methods …

Evidence of tri-exponential decay for liver intravoxel incoherent motion MRI: a review of published results and limitations

O Chevallier, YXJ Wáng, K Guillen, J Pellegrinelli… - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) have been
explored to assess liver tumors and diffused liver diseases. IVIM reflects the microscopic …

A combined use of intravoxel incoherent motion MRI parameters can differentiate early-stage hepatitis-b fibrotic livers from healthy livers

YXJ Wáng, M Deng, YT Li, H Huang… - SLAS …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigated a combined use of intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) parameters,
Dslow (D), PF (f), and Dfast (D*), for liver fibrosis evaluation. Sixteen healthy volunteers (F0) …

[HTML][HTML] Intravoxel incoherent motion derived liver perfusion/diffusion readouts can be reliable biomarker for the detection of viral hepatitis B induced liver fibrosis

T Li, N Che-Nordin, YXJ Wáng, PF Rong… - … Imaging in Medicine …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Recent two studies reported that intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) analysis
can separate healthy livers and viral hepatitis B (VHB) induced liver fibrosis. However, in …

Removal of evidential motion-contaminated and poorly fitted image data improves IVIM diffusion MRI parameter scan–rescan reproducibility

O Chevallier, N Zhou, J He, R Loffroy… - Acta …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background It has been reported that intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) diffusion magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) scan–rescan reproducibility is unsatisfactory. Purpose To study …

Predictive value of intravoxel incoherent motion combined with diffusion kurtosis imaging for breast cancer axillary lymph node metastasis: a retrospective study

Z Zhou, Y Chen, F Zhao, Z Sun, L Zhu, H Yu… - Acta …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Non-invasive imaging technologies for assessing axillary lymph node (ALN)
metastasis of breast cancer are needed in clinical practice. Purpose To explore the clinical …

[HTML][HTML] High performance of intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion MRI in detecting viral hepatitis-b induced liver fibrosis

H Huang, N Che-Nordin, LF Wang… - Annals of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Recently a small cohort study demonstrated that intravoxel incoherent motion
(IVIM) diffusion MRI can detect early stage liver fibrosis. Using modified IVIM data acquisition …