Feasibility of generalised diffusion kurtosis imaging approach for brain glioma grading

Diffusion Tensor Imaging for Glioma Grading: Analysis of Fiber Density Index

Introduction: The most common primary tumors of brain are gliomas and tumor grading is essential for designing proper treatment strategies. The gold standard choice to determine grade of glial tumor is biopsy which is an invasive method. The purpose of this study was to investigatethe role of fiber density index (FDi) by means of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) (as a noninvasive method) in glial...

[A correlation between diffusion kurtosis imaging and the proliferative activity of brain glioma].

UNLABELLED The aim of the study was to assess the capabilities of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) in diagnosis of the glioma proliferative activity and to evaluate a relationship between the glioma proliferative activity index and diffusion parameters of the contralateral normal appearing white matter (CNAWM). MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 47 patients with newly diagnosed brain gli...

Evaluation of cerebral glioma using 3T diffusion kurtosis tensor imaging and the relationship between diffusion kurtosis metrics and tumor cellularity

Purpose To evaluate the clinical utility of diffusion kurtosis tensor imaging in the characterization of cerebral glioma and investigate correlations between diffusion and kurtosis metrics with tumor cellularity. Materials and Methods A group of 163 patients (age: 40.5 ± 11.5 years) diagnosed with cerebral glioma underwent diffusion kurtosis tensor imaging with a 3 T scanner. Diffusion and kurt...

Integrating Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging, Dynamic Susceptibility-Weighted MR imaging and short echo time Chemical Shift Imaging for grading gliomas

Detection and Grading of Prostate Cancer using Diffusion Weighted Imaging: Kurtosis versus ADC

Fig. 3: Kapp: boxplot diagram of PCa (dotted line) and contralateral (line) areas. 4450 Detection and Grading of Prostate Cancer using Diffusion Weighted Imaging: Kurtosis versus ADC Matthias C. Roethke, Tristan Kuder, Timur H. Kuru, Boris Hadaschik, Michael Fenchel, Frederik Laun, and Bram Stieltjes Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Medical Physics, German C...