ArticleCancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society2024
Intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted imaging in evaluating preoperative staging of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma : Evaluation of preoperative stage of primary tumour and prediction of lymph node metastases from esophageal cancer using IVIM: a prospective study.
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- Prognostic value of IVIM-DWI parameters for overall and recurrence-free survival in resected esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2026Article
- Prediction of lymph node metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer and its correlation with Ki-67 expression: a comparative study between intravoxel incoherent motion imaging andBMC medical imaging · 2026Article
- The Evaluation of Combined Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging and Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Diffusion Weighted Imaging in Preoperatively Predicting Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis of Breast Cancer.International journal of general medicine · 2026Article
- Preoperative esophageal cancer staging assessment based on intravoxel incoherent motion and apparent diffusion coefficient: a comparative study of maximum-diameter slice region of interest and whole volume of interest analysis.BMC medical imaging · 2025Article
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backgroundThe aim of this research is to prospectively investigate the diagnostic performance of intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) using the integrated slice-specific dynamic shimming (iShim) technique in staging primary esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and predicting presence of lymph node metastases from ESCC.
methodsSixty-three patients with ESCC were prospectively enrolled from April 2016 to April 2019. MR and IVIM using iShim technique (b = 0, 25, 50, 75, 100, 200, 400, 600, 800 s/mm
resultsThe inter-observer consensus was excellent for IVIM parameters and ADC (D: ICC = 0.922; D
conclusionsIVIM may be used as an effective functional imaging technique to evaluate preoperative stage of primary tumour and predict presence of lymph node metastases from ESCC.
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