Yuki Nakamitsu, Masahiro Kuroda, Yudai Shimizu, Kazuhiro Kuroda, Yuuki Yoshimura, Suzuka Yoshida, Yoshihide Nakamura, Yuka Fukumura, Ryo Kamizaki, Wlla E Al-Hammad, Masataka Oita, Yoshinori Tanabe, Kohei Sugimoto, Irfan Sugianto, Majd Barham, Nouha Tekiki, Junichi Asaumi
Background: Our initial clinical study using simple diffusion kurtosis imaging (SDI), which simultaneously produces a diffusion kurtosis image (DKI) and an apparent diffusion coefficient map, confirmed the usefulness of SDI for tumor diagnosis. However, the obtained DKI had noticeable variability in the mean kurtosis (MK) values, which is inherent to SDI. We aimed to improve this variability in SDI by preprocessing with three different filters (Gaussian [G], median [M], and nonlocal mean) of the diffusion-weighted images used for SDI...
March 20, 2024: Journal of Clinical Medicine