Combination of IVIM with DCE-MRI in diagnosis and prognostic evaluation of breast cancer
Yurong Zheng1, Rui Wang1, Li Li1, Haoyuan Li1, Pengfei Wang1, Tiejun Gan1, Jing Zhang1, and Kai Ai2
1Department of Magnetic Resonance, LanZhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China, 2Philips Healthcare, Xi’an, China
This research showed that DCE-derived Ktrans,
Kep and IVIM-derived D and f are associated with prognostic factors
of breast cancer.
FIGURE 1. ROC curves of different methods (DCE-MRI, IVIM, and DCE-MRI + IVIM) for discriminating malignant and benign breast
lesions.
TABLE 1. The correction analysis of DCE-MRI, IVIM and the prognosis of breast
cancer indexes.