Shaopeng Li, Peng Wang, Jun Qiu, Yiju Xie, Dawei Yin, Kexue Deng*
Oncologie, Vol.24, No.3, pp. 527-538, 2022, DOI:10.32604/oncologie.2022.022815
- 19 September 2022
Abstract Background: To compare the differential diagnostic value of iterative decomposition of water and fat with the
echo asymmetrical and least-squares estimation quantitation sequence (IDEAL-IQ) with that of intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted imaging (IVIM DWI) in differentiating between alpha fetoprotein (AFP)-negative hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH). Materials and Methods: A total of
28 AFP-negative HCC cases and 15 FNH cases were scanned using the IDEAL-IQ and IVIM-DWI magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocols. Two radiologists independently assessed the fat fraction (FF) and the iron level
surrogate (R2*) derived from the IDEAL-IQ images and the apparent diffusion… More >