Intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted imaging in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: comparison of the turbo spin-echo and echo-planar imaging techniques
TSE-IVIM provided better subjective image quality scores and a significantly higher CNR, with no significant reduction in SNR. It demonstrated superior image quality and more stable quantitative indicators for nasopharyngeal lesions and nasal concha although magnetic sensitivity artifacts were more noticeable. Due to the different f values and wide LoAs observed between the two sequences in nasopharyngeal lesions, TSE-IVIM is recommended for follow-up in patients with NPC.
Authors
- Peng Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4782-0693)
- Yuan Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2578-0707)
- Hu Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4263-7926)
- Ziqiao Lei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3103-4188)
- Lijuan Qian
- Manman Chen
- Si Xu
- Jing Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5194-9960)
Institutions
- Union Hospital (HK)
- Philips (China) (CN)
- State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing (CN)
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21037/qims-24-1021
- Primary Topic
- MRI in cancer diagnosis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00