ReviewQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2021
Apparent diffusion coefficient measurement of the parotid gland parenchyma.
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- Machine learning-based radiomics for histological classification of parotid tumors using morphological MRI: a comparative study.European radiology · 2022Trial
- Role of Major Salivary Gland MRI in Adult Sjögren's Disease: Protocols, Findings, and Clinical Utility.Cureus · 2026Review
- Longitudinal multi-b-value diffusion MRI for the early assessment of radiation-induced parotid injury in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Development of a biological at-risk volume using apparent diffusion coefficient for parotid-sparing radiation therapy planning.BJR open · 2025Article
- Validation of quantitative magnetic resonance imaging techniques in head and neck healthy structures involved in the salivary and swallowing function: Accuracy and repeatability.Physics and imaging in radiation oncology · 2024Article
- Assessment of synthetic MRI to distinguish Warthin's tumor from pleomorphic adenoma in the parotid gland: comparison of two methods of positioning the region of interest for synthetic relaxometry measurement.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- Semiquantitative magnetic resonance imaging parameters for differentiating parotid pleomorphic adenoma from Warthin tumor.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Differentiating angiomatous meningioma from atypical meningioma using histogram analysis of apparent diffusion coefficient maps.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Analysis in a Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease Rat Model.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) Histogram Analysis in Parotid Gland Tumors: Evaluating a Novel Approach for Differentiation between Benign and Malignant Parotid Lesions Based on Full Histogram Distributions.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Oncological outcomes of patients with salivary gland cancer treated with surgery and postoperative intensity-modulated radiotherapy: a retrospective cohort study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2022Article
- Robust extraction of biological information from diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging during radiotherapy using semi-automatic delineation.Physics and imaging in radiation oncology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The measurements of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) with diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is becoming a popular diagnostic and research tool for examination of parotid glands. However, there is little agreement between the reported ADC values of the parotid gland in published literature. In this review 43 studies on ADC measurement of the parotid glands were included. The analyses indicated several possible culprits of the observed ADC discrepancies. For example, DW-MRI examinations under gustatory stimulation gives higher ADC values compared to the unstimulated parotid gland (P=0.003). The diffusion weighting factors (b-values) can either increase (b-value <200 s/mm
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