Open AccessFeasibility study of computedvsmeasured high b-value (1400 s/mm²) diffusion-weighted MR images of the prostate
Author(s) -
Leonardo Kayat Bittencourt,
Ulrike Attenberger,
Daniel Santos Corrêa Lima,
Ralph Strecker,
André Fernando Oliveira,
Stefan O. Schoenberg,
Emerson L. Gasparetto,
Daniel Hausmann
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
world journal of radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1949-8470
DOI - 10.4329/wjr.v6.i6.374
Subject(s) - medicine , nuclear medicine , lesion , magnetic resonance imaging , effective diffusion coefficient , diffusion mri , prostate cancer , prostate , image quality , radiology , pathology , cancer , image (mathematics) , artificial intelligence , computer science
To evaluate the impact of computed b = 1400 s/mm(2) (C-b1400) vs measured b = 1400 s/mm(2) (M-b1400) diffusion-weighted images (DWI) on lesion detection rate, image quality and quality of lesion demarcation using a modern 3T-MR system based on a small-field-of-view sequence (sFOV).