Molecular Imaging 2017

Diffusion Weighted MRI

400

Bowel Prostate-Central Prostate-peripheral

350

S

bD e 



300

Bladder Muscle Marrow Tumour

S

250

0

200

150

S = DW signal S 0 = signal without DW b=diffusion factor D = diffusion coefficient

100 Signal intensity

50

0

0

200 400 600 800 1000

b value (s/mm 2 )

Normal prostate

b0

b100

b800