Preliminary study of using diffusion kurtosis imaging for characterizing parotid gland tumors

Acta Radiol. 2019 Jul;60(7):887-894. doi: 10.1177/0284185118803784. Epub 2018 Sep 27.

Authors

Wen Qian¹, Xiao-Quan Xu¹, Liu-Ning Zhu², Gao Ma¹, Guo-Yi Su¹, Shou-Shan Bu², Fei-Yun Wu¹

Affiliations

¹ 1 Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China.
² 2 Department of Stomatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China.

PMID: 30259752
DOI: 10.1177/0284185118803784

No abstract available

Keywords: Parotid gland; Warthin’s tumor; diffusion kurtosis imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; pleomorphic adenoma.

MeSH terms

Adult
Diagnosis, Differential
Diffusion Tensor Imaging / methods*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Parotid Gland / diagnostic imaging
Parotid Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Retrospective Studies
Sensitivity and Specificity

Grants and funding

U24 EB028980/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/United States