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MR diffusion weighted imaging:Application in soft tissue tumors
YANG Yanyu  ZHANG Kai  ZHANG Lina  WANG Shaowu 

Cite this article as: Yang YY, Zhang K, Zhang LN, et al. MR diffusion weighted imaging：Application in soft tissue tumors[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2021, 12(10): 121-124. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.10.032.


[Abstract] Magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion weighted imaging is a functional imaging technique that can reflect the diffusion characteristics of water molecules and detect microstructural changes in tissues, including monoexponential diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) model, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI), and has been used in the clinical evaluation of soft tissue tumors (STTs). This article introduces the four techniques briefly and reviews their application in the differential diagnosis, histological grading prediction, infiltration assessment, postoperative recurrence monitoring and radiotherapy efficacy evaluation or prediction of STSs.
[Keywords] soft tissue tumors；diffusion weighted imaging；intravoxel incoherent motion；diffusion tensor imaging；diffusion kurtosis imaging

YANG Yanyu1   ZHANG Kai1   ZHANG Lina2   WANG Shaowu1*  

1 Department of Radiology, The Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116027, China

2 Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116011, China

Wang SW, E-mail: wsw_2018@163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81771804).
Received  2021-05-28
Accepted  2021-07-01
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.10.032
Cite this article as: Yang YY, Zhang K, Zhang LN, et al. MR diffusion weighted imaging：Application in soft tissue tumors[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2021, 12(10): 121-124. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.10.032.

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