ArticleNeuroradiology2020
Intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted imaging for discrimination of benign and malignant retropharyngeal nodes.
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- Comparison of four MRI diffusion models to differentiate benign from metastatic retropharyngeal lymph nodes.European radiology experimental · 2025Article
- Change in diffusion weighted imaging after induction chemotherapy outperforms RECIST guideline for long-term outcome prediction in advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2025Article
- Predictive markers for head and neck cancer treatment response: T1rho imaging in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.European radiology · 2025Article
- Utility of mono-exponential, bi-exponential, and stretched exponential signal models of intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) to predict prognosis and survival risk in laryngeal and hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LHSCC) patients after chemoradiotherapy.Japanese journal of radiology · 2023Article
- Endovascular Revascularization of an Unfavorable Type of Chronically Occluded Internal Carotid Artery Using a Balloon Guide Catheter.Clinical neuroradiology · 2023Article
- Prediction of short-term treatment outcome of nasopharyngeal carcinoma based on voxel incoherent motion imaging and arterial spin labeling quantitative parameters.European journal of radiology open · 2023Article
- Arterial spin labeling and diffusion-weighted imaging for identification of retropharyngeal lymph nodes in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeAnatomical imaging criteria for the diagnosis of malignant head and neck nodes may not always be reliable. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of conventional diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) DWI in discriminating benign and malignant metastatic retropharyngeal nodes (RPNs).
methodsIVIM DWI using 14 b-values was performed on RPNs of 30 patients with newly diagnosed metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and 30 patients with elevated plasma Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-DNA without NPC who were part of an EBV-based NPC screening program. Histogram measurements of the two groups were compared for pure diffusion coefficient (D), pseudo-diffusion coefficient (D*), perfusion volume fraction (f) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) using the Mann-Whitney U test. Area under the curves (AUCs) of significant measurements were calculated from receiver-operating characteristics analysis and compared using the DeLong test.
resultsCompared with metastatic RPNs, benign RPNs had lower ADC
conclusionBenign RPNs in patients with EBV-DNA showed greater restriction of diffusion compared with malignant metastatic RPNs from NPC. IVIM did not show a significant advantage over conventional DWI in discriminating benign and malignant nodes.
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