Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Pancreas

The objective of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic benefit of an intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) model-based characterization of pancreatic masses from diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with 3 b values.This retrospective study had an approval from the institutional review board, and informed patient consent was waived. The 1.5-T DWI data of 42 patients with or without pancreatic disease, acquired by a respiratory-gated spin-echo...