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Relationship between kurtosis and bi-exponential characterization of high b-value diffusion-weighted imaging: application to prostate cancer.

Roshan A KarunamuniJoshua KupermanTyler M SeibertNatalie SchenkerRebecca Rakow-PennerV S SundarJose R TeruelPal E GoaDavid S KarowAnders M DaleNathan S White
Published in: Acta radiologica (Stockholm, Sweden : 1987) (2018)
In a two-component diffusion environment, KCOMP is a scaled value of SFs and is thus able to discriminate suspicious lesions with equal precision . KCE provides a computationally inexpensive approximation of kurtosis but does not provide the same discriminatory abilities as SFs and KCOMP.
Keyphrases
  • diffusion weighted imaging
  • prostate cancer
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • radical prostatectomy
  • contrast enhanced
  • magnetic resonance
  • computed tomography