The usefulness of b value threshold map in the evaluation of rectal adenocarcinoma.
Fu ShenLuguang ChenZhihui LiHaidi LuYukun ChenZhen WangCaixia FuRobert GrimmJianping LuPublished in: Abdominal radiology (New York) (2021)
Both ADC and bThreshold values can differentiate between degrees of pathologic differentiation and T1-2 versus T3-4. Potential added advantages however of the bThreshold map include a higher CNR compared with DWI images, thereby improving lesion visualization detection, and better diagnostic performance for end staging than ADC. Thus, the bThreshold map may compliment DWI and ADC to evaluate pathologic features of rectal primary tumors and metastatic lymph nodes.
Keyphrases
- diffusion weighted imaging
- diffusion weighted
- lymph node
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- contrast enhanced
- locally advanced
- rectal cancer
- magnetic resonance imaging
- squamous cell carcinoma
- high density
- small cell lung cancer
- sentinel lymph node
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- pet ct
- magnetic resonance
- computed tomography
- convolutional neural network
- early stage
- label free
- human health