Computed diffusion-weighted imaging using 1.5-T magnetic resonance imaging for prostate cancer diagnosis

Publication date: January–February 2017
Source:Clinical Imaging, Volume 41
Author(s): Rika Yoshida, Takeshi Yoshizako, Takashi Katsube, Yukihisa Tamaki, Noriyoshi Ishikawa, Hajime Kitagaki
Computed diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (cDWI) is gradually being known to be useful to detect prostate cancer. We found that cDWIs (b=2000 s/mm2) were easily generated from measured DWIs (mDWIs) with image processing using Image J and that the contrast ratio (CR) of cDWIs-2000 appeared to be higher than the CR of mDWIs-1000 and mDWIs-2000. The diagnostic ability of cDWI-2000 for prostate cancer detection was equivalent to that of mDWI-2000. There is a possibility that cDWIs-2000 can replace mDWIs-2000.



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