He Wang1, Naiyi
Zhu2, Fuhua Yan2, Guang Cao, Xu Yan3
1MR
Research China, GE Healthcare, Shanghai, China; 2Department of Radiology,
Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, China; 3East China Normal University,
Shanghai, China
Diffusional kurtosis imaging has shown promising results in studies of human brain aging and brain tumor characterization, however, limited results were reported on liver diseases. This study is to investigate the clinical feasibility of DKI in evaluating liver fibrosis by comparison with serum fibrosis indicators. As a result, FA MD, Da and Dr exhibited statistically significant correlation with LN. In addition, compared with another serum indicator HBsAg, moderate correlations were found in Da, MK and Ka. Kurtosis parameters had stronger correlations with HBsAg than normal diffusion parameters.