Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in the upper abdomen: Technical issues and clinical applications

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-131

  Bittencourt, Leonardo K ^a   Matos, Celso ^b   Coutinho, Antonio C ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c Centro Medico RIOMAR   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Liver; Magnetic resonance; Upper abdomen

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACCESSORY SPLEEN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL METASTASIS; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT STONE; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FOCAL NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ABDOMEN; ADRENAL GLAND DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 78649754725     PISSN: 10649689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2010.09.002     Document Type: Review

References (81)

1. Stejskal E.O., Tanner J.E. Spin diffusion measurements: spin echoes in the presence of a time-dependent field gradient. J Chem Phys 1965, 42(1):288.
2. Le Bihan D., Breton E., Lallemand D., et al. MR imaging of intravoxel incoherent motions: application to diffusion and perfusion in neurologic disorders. Radiology 1986, 161(2):401-407.
3. Warach S., Chien D., Li W., et al. Fast magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging of acute human stroke. Neurology 1992, 42(9):1717-1723.
4. Neil J.J. Measurement of water motion (apparent diffusion) in biological systems. Concepts Magn Reson 1997, 9(6):385-401.
5. Qayyum A. Diffusion-weighted imaging in the abdomen and pelvis: concepts and applications. Radiographics 2009, 29(6):1797-1810.
6. Pagani E., Bizzi A., Di Salle F., et al. Basic concepts of advanced MRI techniques. Neurol Sci 2008, 29(Suppl 3):290-295.
7. Kwee T.C., Takahara T., Koh D.M., et al. Comparison and reproducibility of ADC measurements in breathhold, respiratory triggered, and free-breathing diffusion-weighted MR imaging of the liver. J Magn Reson Imaging 2008, 28(5):1141-1148.
8. Takahara T., Imai Y., Yamashita T., et al. Diffusion weighted whole body imaging with background body signal suppression (DWIBS): technical improvement using free breathing, STIR and high resolution 3D display. Radiat Med 2004, 22(160):275-282.
9. Nishie A., Tajima T., Ishigami K., et al. Detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using super paramagnetic iron oxide (SPIO)-enhanced MRI: Added value of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). J Magn Reson Imaging 2010, 31(2):373-382.
10. Chiu F.Y., Jao J.C., Chen C.Y., et al. Effect of intravenous gadolinium-DTPA on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images for evaluation of focal hepatic lesions. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2005, 29(2):176-180.
11. Yamada K., Kubota H., Kizu O., et al. Effect of intravenous gadolinium-DTPA on diffusion-weighted images: evaluation of normal brain and infarcts. Stroke 2002, 33(7):1799-1802.
12. Firat A., Şanli B., Karakaş H., et al. The effect of intravenous gadolinium-DTPA on diffusion-weighted imaging. Neuroradiology 2006, 48(7):465-470.
13. Taouli B., Koh D.M. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of the liver. Radiology 2010, 254(1):47-66.
14. Okada Y., Ohtomo K., Kiryu S., et al. Breath-hold T2-weighted MRI of hepatic tumors: value of echo planar imaging with diffusion-sensitizing gradient. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1998, 22(3):364-371.
15. Moteki T., Sekine T. Echo planar MR imaging of the liver: comparison of images with and without motion probing gradients. J Magn Reson Imaging 2004, 19(1):82-90.
16. Nasu K., Kuroki Y., Nawano S., et al. Hepatic metastases: diffusion-weighted sensitivity-encoding versus SPIO-enhanced MR imaging. Radiology 2006, 239(1):122-130.
17. Coenegrachts K., Delanote J., Ter Beek L., et al. Improved focal liver lesion detection: comparison of single-shot diffusion-weighted echo planar and single-shot T2 weighted turbo spin echo techniques. Br J Radiol 2007, 80(955):524-531.
18. Low R.N., Gurney J. Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) in the oncology patient: value of breathhold DWI compared to unenhanced and gadolinium-enhanced MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging 2007, 25(4):848-858.
19. Bruegel M., Gaa J., Waldt S., et al. Diagnosis of hepatic metastasis: comparison of respiration-triggered diffusion-weighted echo-planar MRI and five t2-weighted turbo spin-echo sequences. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2008, 191(5):1421-1429.
20. Parikh T., Drew S.J., Lee V.S., et al. Focal liver lesion detection and characterization with diffusion-weighted MR imaging: comparison with standard breath-hold T2-weighted imaging. Radiology 2008, 246(3):812-822.
21. Zech C.J., Herrmann K.A., Dietrich O., et al. Black-blood diffusion-weighted EPI acquisition of the liver with parallel imaging: comparison with a standard T2-weighted sequence for detection of focal liver lesions. Invest Radiol 2008, 43(4):261-266.
22. Hussain S.M., De Becker J., Hop W.C., et al. Can a single-shot black-blood T2-weighted spin-echo echo-planar imaging sequence with sensitivity encoding replace the respiratory-triggered turbo spin-echo sequence for the liver? An optimization and feasibility study. J Magn Reson Imaging 2005, 21(3):219-229.
23. van den Bos I.C., Hussain S.M., Krestin G.P., et al. Liver imaging at 3.0 T: diffusion-induced black-blood echo-planar imaging with large anatomic volumetric coverage as an alternative for specific absorption rate-intensive echo-train spin-echo sequences: feasibility study. Radiology 2008, 248(1):264-271.
24. Koh D.M., Brown G., Riddell A.M., et al. Detection of colorectal hepatic metastases using MnDPDP MR imaging and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) alone and in combination. Eur Radiol 2008, 18(5):903-910.
25. Hardie A.D., Naik M., Hecht E.M., et al. Diagnosis of liver metastases: value of diffusion-weighted MRI compared with gadolinium-enhanced MRI. Eur Radiol 2010, 20(6):1431-1441.
26. Namimoto T., Yamashita Y., Sumi S., et al. Focal liver masses: characterization with diffusion-weighted echo-planar MR imaging. Radiology 1997, 204(3):739-744.
27. Kim T., Murakami T., Takahashi S., et al. Diffusion-weighted single-shot echoplanar MR imaging for liver disease. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1999, 173(2):393-398.
28. Yamada I., Aung W., Himeno Y., et al. Diffusion coefficients in abdominal organs and hepatic lesions: evaluation with intravoxel incoherent motion echo-planar MR imaging. Radiology 1999, 210(3):617-623.
29. Taouli B., Vilgrain V., Dumont E., et al. Evaluation of liver diffusion isotropy and characterization of focal hepatic lesions with two single-shot echo-planar MR imaging sequences: prospective study in 66 patients. Radiology 2003, 226(1):71-78.
30. Bruegel M., Holzapfel K., Gaa J., et al. Characterization of focal liver lesions by ADC measurements using a respiratory triggered diffusion-weighted single-shot echo-planar MR imaging technique. Eur Radiol 2008, 18(3):477-485.
31. Gourtsoyianni S., Papanikolaou N., Yarmenitis S., et al. Respiratory gated diffusion-weighted imaging of the liver: value of apparent diffusion coefficient measurements in the differentiation between most commonly encountered benign and malignant focal liver lesions. Eur Radiol 2008, 18(3):486-492.
32. Goshima S., Kanematsu M., Kondo H., et al. Diffusion-weighted imaging of the liver: optimizing b value for the detection and characterization of benign and malignant hepatic lesions. J Magn Reson Imaging 2008, 28(3):691-697.
33. Holzapfel K., Bruegel M., Eiber M., et al. Characterization of small (≤10 mm) focal liver lesions: value of respiratory-triggered echo-planar diffusion-weighted MR imaging. Eur J Radiol 2010, 76(1):89-95.
34. Kandpal H., Sharma R., Madhusudhan K.S., et al. Respiratory-triggered versus breath-hold diffusion-weighted MRI of liver lesions: comparison of image quality and apparent diffusion coefficient values. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2009, 192(4):915-922.
35. Amano Y., Kumazaki T., Ishihara M. Single-shot diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging of normal and cirrhotic livers using a phased-array multicoil. Acta Radiol 1998, 39(4):440-442.
36. Aube C., Racineux P.X., Lebigot J., et al. Diagnosis and quantification of hepatic fibrosis with diffusion weighted MR imaging: preliminary results. J Radiol 2004, 85(3):301-306.
37. Koinuma M., Ohashi I., Hanafusa K., et al. Apparent diffusion coefficient measurements with diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for evaluation of hepatic fibrosis. J Magn Reson Imaging 2005, 22(1):80-85.
38. Taouli B., Tolia A.J., Losada M., et al. Diffusion-weighted MRI for quantification of liver fibrosis: preliminary experience. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2007, 189(4):799-806.
39. Boulanger Y., Amara M., Lepanto L., et al. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of the liver of hepatitis C patients. NMR Biomed 2003, 16(3):132-136.
40. Sugita R., Yamazaki T., Furuta A., et al. High b-value diffusion-weighted MRI for detecting gallbladder carcinoma: preliminary study and results. Eur Radiol 2009, 19(7):1794-1798.
41. Cui X.Y., Chen H.W. Role of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. World J Gastroenterol 2010, 16(25):3196-3201.
42. Tsushima Y., Takahashi-Taketomi A., Endo K. Diagnostic utility of diffusion-weighted MR imaging and apparent diffusion coefficient value for the diagnosis of adrenal tumors. J Magn Reson Imaging 2009, 29(1):112-117.
43. Miller F.H., Wang Y., McCarthy R.J., et al. Utility of diffusion-weighted MRI in characterization of adrenal lesions. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2010, 194(2):W179-W185.
44. Kilickesmez O., Inci E., Atilla S., et al. Diffusion-weighted imaging of the renal and adrenal lesions. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2009, 33(6):828-833.
45. Namimoto T., Yamashita Y., Mitsuzaki K., et al. Measurement of the apparent diffusion coefficient in diffuse renal disease by diffusion-weighted echo-planar MR imaging. J Magn Reson Imaging 1999, 9(6):832-837.
46. Fukuda Y., Ohashi I., Hanafusa K., et al. Anisotropic diffusion in kidney: apparent diffusion coefficient measurements for clinical use. J Magn Reson Imaging 2000, 11(2):156-160.
47. Xu Y., Wang X., Jiang X. Relationship between the renal apparent diffusion coefficient and glomerular filtration rate: preliminary experience. J Magn Reson Imaging 2007, 26(3):678-681.
48. Yildirim E., Kirbas I., Teksam M., et al. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of kidneys in renal artery stenosis. Eur J Radiol 2008, 65(1):148-153.
49. Chan J.H., Tsui E.Y., Luk S.H., et al. MR diffusion-weighted imaging of kidney: differentiation between hydronephrosis and pyonephrosis. Clin Imaging 2001, 25(2):110-113.
50. Thoeny H.C., Zumstein D., Simon-Zoula S., et al. Functional evaluation of transplanted kidneys with diffusion-weighted and bold MR imaging: initial experience1. Radiology 2006, 241(3):812-821.
51. Thoeny H.C., De Keyzer F., Oyen R.H., et al. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of kidneys in healthy volunteers and patients with parenchymal diseases: initial experience. Radiology 2005, 235(3):911-917.
52. Thoeny H.C., Binser T., Roth B., et al. Noninvasive assessment of acute ureteral obstruction with diffusion-weighted MR imaging: a prospective study1. Radiology 2009, 252(3):721-728.
53. Müller M.F., Prasad P.V., Bimmler D., et al. Functional imaging of the kidney by means of measurement of the apparent diffusion coefficient. Radiology 1994, 193(3):711-715.
54. Ichikawa T., Haradome H., Hachiya J., et al. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging with single-shot echo-planar imaging in the upper abdomen: preliminary clinical experience in 61 patients. Abdom Imaging 1999, 24(5):456-461.
55. Kim S., Naik M., Sigmund E., et al. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of the kidneys and the urinary tract. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am 2008, 16(4):585-596.
56. Ries M., Jones R.A., Basseau F., et al. Diffusion tensor MRI of the human kidney. J Magn Reson Imaging 2001, 14(1):42-49.
57. Toya R., Naganawa S., Kawai H., et al. Correlation between estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of the kidneys. Magn Reson Med Sci 2010, 9(2):59-64.
58. Cova M., Squillaci E., Stacul F., et al. Diffusion-weighted MRI in the evaluation of renal lesions: preliminary results. Br J Radiol 2004, 77(922):851-857.
59. Squillaci E., Manenti G., Di Stefano F., et al. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging in the evaluation of renal tumours. J Exp Clin Cancer 2004, 23(1):39-46.
60. Yoshikawa T., Kawamitsu H., Mitchell D.G., et al. ADC measurement of abdominal organs and lesions using parallel imaging technique. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2006, 187(6):1521-1530.
61. Zhang J., Mazaheri Tehrani Y., Wang L., et al. Renal masses: characterization with diffusion-weighted MR imaging-a preliminary experience. Radiology 2008, 247(2):458-464.
62. Taouli B., Thakur R.K., Mannelli L., et al. Renal lesions: characterization with diffusion-weighted imaging versus contrast-enhanced MR imaging1. Radiology 2009, 251(2):398-407.
63. Paudyal B., Paudyal P., Tsushima Y., et al. The role of the ADC value in the characterisation of renal carcinoma by diffusion-weighted MRI. Br J Radiol 2010, 83(988):336-343.
64. Balci N.C., Perman W.H., Saglam S., et al. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the pancreas. Top Magn Reson Imaging 2009, 20(1):43.
65. Lee S.S., Byun J.H., Park B.J., et al. Quantitative analysis of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the pancreas: usefulness in characterizing solid pancreatic masses. J Magn Reson Imaging 2008, 28(4):928-936.
66. Muraoka N., Uematsu H., Kimura H., et al. Apparent diffusion coefficient in pancreatic cancer: characterization and histopathological correlations. J Magn Reson Imaging 2008, 27(6):1302-1308.
67. Fattahi R., Balci N.C., Perman W.H., et al. Pancreatic diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI): comparison between mass-forming focal pancreatitis (FP), pancreatic cancer (PC), and normal pancreas. J Magn Reson Imaging 2009, 29(2):350-356.
68. Kartalis N., Lindholm T., Aspelin P., et al. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of pancreas tumours. Eur Radiol 2009, 19(8):1981-1990.
69. Matsuki M., Inada Y., Nakai G., et al. Diffusion-weighed MR imaging of pancreatic carcinoma. Abdom Imaging 2007, 32(4):481-483.
70. Takeuchi M., Matsuzaki K., Kubo H., et al. High-b-value diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of pancreatic cancer and mass-forming chronic pancreatitis: preliminary results. Acta Radiol 2008, 49(4):383-386.
71. Bakir B., Salmaslioglu A., PoyanlI A., et al. Diffusion weighted MR imaging of pancreatic islet cell tumors. Eur J Radiol 2009, 74(1):214-220.
72. Anaye A., Mathieu A., Closset J., et al. Successful preoperative localization of a small pancreatic insulinoma by diffusion-weighted MRI. JOP 2009, 10(5):528-531.
73. Inan N., Arslan A., Akansel G., et al. Diffusion-weighted imaging in the differential diagnosis of cystic lesions of the pancreas. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2008, 191(4):1115-1121.
74. Akisik M.F., Sandrasegaran K., Jennings S.G., et al. Diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis by using apparent diffusion coefficient measurements at 3.0-T MR following secretin stimulation. Radiology 2009, 252(2):418-425.
75. Taniguchi T., Kobayashi H., Nishikawa K., et al. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in autoimmune pancreatitis. Jpn J Radiol 2009, 27(3):138-142.
76. Ertan G., Tekes A., Mitchell S., et al. Pediatric littoral cell angioma of the spleen: multimodality imaging including diffusion-weighted imaging. Pediatr Radiol 2009, 39(10):1105-1109.
77. Padhani A.R., Liu G., Mu-Koh D., et al. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging as a cancer biomarker: consensus and recommendations. Neoplasia 2009, 11(2):102-125.
78. Le Bihan D., Breton E., Lallemand D., et al. Separation of diffusion and perfusion in intravoxel incoherent motion MR imaging. Radiology 1988, 168(2):497-505.
79. Luciani A., Vignaud A., Cavet M., et al. Liver cirrhosis: intravoxel incoherent motion MR imaging - a pilot study. Radiology 2008, 249(3):891-899.
80. Lemke A., Laun F.B., Klau M., et al. Differentiation of pancreas carcinoma from healthy pancreatic tissue using multiple b-values: comparison of apparent diffusion coefficient and intravoxel incoherent motion derived parameters. Invest Radiol 2009, 44(12):769-775.
81. Zhang J.L., Sigmund E.E., Chandarana H., et al. Variability of renal apparent diffusion coefficients: limitations of the monoexponential model for diffusion quantification. Radiology 2010, 254(3):783-792.