Assessment the Preponderant Diagnostic Performances of Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer Using Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging
Suhong Qin1, Ailian Liu1, SHUANG MENG1, Lihua Chen1, Qinhe Zhang1, Qingwei Song1, and Yunsong Liu1
1The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
The performances of DKI cannot differentiate between oligometastatic and
widely metastatic PCa, but it has the potential to assess tumor load and
aggressiveness in metastatic PCa.
Figure 1 A 69-year-old male with PCa.ROI was manually placed on the local
lesion of MK map (A). The Ka, Kr, FAk, MD, Da, Dr and
FA maps of DKI were shown(B-H).
Table 2 Results
of correlation analysis of DKI parameters and PSA
* P value
is statistically significant.