Open AccessDiffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) of hepatocellular carcinoma: correlation with microvascular invasion and histologic grade
Author(s) -
Likun Cao,
Jie Chen,
Ting Duan,
Min Wang,
Hanyu Jiang,
Wei Yi,
Chunchao Xia,
Xiaoyue Zhou,
Yan Xu,
Bin Song
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2223-4292
pISSN - 2223-4306
DOI - 10.21037/qims.2019.02.14
Subject(s) - medicine , hepatocellular carcinoma , effective diffusion coefficient , receiver operating characteristic , kurtosis , logistic regression , diffusion mri , magnetic resonance imaging , prospective cohort study , nuclear medicine , univariate analysis , radiology , gastroenterology , multivariate analysis , statistics , mathematics
The aim of this study was to prospectively evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) in predicting microvascular invasion (MVI) and histologic grade of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with comparison to the conventional diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI).