A Prospective Observational Study of Diagnostic Reliability of Semiquantitative and Quantitative High b-Value Diffusion-Weighted MRI in Distinguishing between Benign and Malignant Lung Lesions at 3 Tesla

Abstract

Aim The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of high b-value diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) to differentiate benign and malignant lung lesions in 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Keywords

• magnetic resonance imaging
• diffusion-weighted imaging
• lung neoplasm