• Affiliated Clinical Hospital of University of Electronic Science and Technology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Chengdu 610072, P.R.China;
ZHANG Jie, Email: z85445417@163.com
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Objectives To investigate the diagnostic value of different diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) models between two Gaussian DWI models including mono-exponential and bi-exponential, and the non-Gaussian kurtosis model in poorly differentiated pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.Methods Subjects comprised 52 patients with poorly differentiated pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma which had been confirmed by surgery. All patients underwent DWI (1.5T, multi-b values: 0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 500, 800, 1000, 1 500, 2 000s/mm2). Mean values of DWI-derived metrics ADCstandard, ADCslow, ADCfast, f, MD, MK and ADCstandard were calculated from regions of interest in all tumours and non-tumorous parenchyma and compared. ANOVA and Mann Whitney U test was used to compare the MRI paremeters. ROC was used to evaluate the diagnostic efficiency.Results Mean ADCstandard, ADCfast, f and MK values showed significant differences between tumours and non-tumorous parenchyma (P<0.05). AUC for ADCstandard, MD, ADCfast and f were 0.705, 0.665, 0.648, 0.614, respectively. The ROC curve integrated with ADCstandard and MD had better diagnostic efficiency (AUC was about 0.754).Conclusions ADCstandard, ADCfast, f and MK values can differentiate tumours from non-tumorous parenchyma. The combination of Gaussion distribution model and non-Gaussion distribution model has the potential to increase the diagnostic accuracy of DWI in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Citation: PENG Shengkun, ZHANG Jie, WU Xiaohua, PU Hong, YIN Longlin, WAN Shaoping. Diagnostic value of DWI MRI between mono-exponential, bi-exponential and non-Gaussian kurtosis models in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a comparative study. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2020, 20(4): 389-394. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201907075 Copy

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