Molecular Imaging 2017

Diffusion Weighted MRI

400

Bowel Prostate-Central Prostate-peripheral

350

1

S  

S

  

  

i

ADC

bD e  ln

x

 i

300

b

S

0

S

Bladder Muscle Marrow Tumour

0

250

200

Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Gradient of ln

150

100 Signal intensity

SI change

50

(mm 2 /s )

0

0

200 400 600 800 1000

b value (s/mm 2 )

Normal prostate

b0

b100

b800

ADC