Ye Ju1, Ai-lian Liu1, Qing-wei Song1, Mei-yu Sun1, Jing-hong LIU1, Li-hua Chen1, Zheng Han1, Yi-min WANG1, and Li-zhi Xie2
1The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China, People's Republic of, 2GE Healthcare, MR Research China, Beijing, Beijing, China, People's Republic of
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diffusion property of tumor tissues largely depends on cell density, which may
also be predictive features of malignancy in some types of tumors. Intravoxel
incoherent motion (IVIM) imaging is an extension of diffusion weighted imaging
(DWI) that can be used to investigate both diffusion and perfusion changes in
tissues. Comparing the IVIM parameters between carcinoma (HCC),
hepatic hemangioma and hepatic metastasis, we found that IVIM can facilitates
understanding of tumor tissue characteristics of perfusion and diffusion, and
it may provide more useful information to distinguish hemangiomas from other
two malignant tumors.
