Wang YT, Li YC, Kong WF, Yin LL, Pu H. Diffusion tensor imaging beyond brains: Applications in abdominal and pelvic organs. World J Meta-Anal 2017; 5(3): 71-79 [DOI: 10.13105/wjma.v5.i3.71]
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Yu-Ting Wang, MD, Department of Radiology, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, No. 32, Section 2, 1st Ring Road (West), Chengdu 610072, Sichuan Province, China. wangyuting_330@163.com
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World J Meta-Anal. Jun 26, 2017; 5(3): 71-79 Published online Jun 26, 2017. doi: 10.13105/wjma.v5.i3.71
Diffusion tensor imaging beyond brains: Applications in abdominal and pelvic organs
Yu-Ting Wang, Ying-Chun Li, Wei-Fang Kong, Long-Lin Yin, Hong Pu
Yu-Ting Wang, Ying-Chun Li, Wei-Fang Kong, Long-Lin Yin, Hong Pu, Department of Radiology, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Chengdu 610072, Sichuan Province, China
Author contributions: Wang YT designed the main ideas; Li YC, Kong WF, Yin LL and Pu H helped collect relevant data; Wang YT wrote the paper.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interests.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Yu-Ting Wang, MD, Department of Radiology, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, No. 32, Section 2, 1st Ring Road (West), Chengdu 610072, Sichuan Province, China. wangyuting_330@163.com
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Received: December 28, 2016 Peer-review started: December 31, 2016 First decision: March 27, 2017 Revised: April 7, 2017 Accepted: April 23, 2017 Article in press: April 24, 2017 Published online: June 26, 2017
Core Tip
Core tip: As a newly developed and advanced technique of functional magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measures the diffusion properties including anisotropy. After its successful application in brains, technical advances have now enabled DTI in abdominal and pelvic organs. We herein give a systematic overview of clinical application of DTI in abdominal and pelvic organs such as liver, pancreas, kidneys, prostate, uterus, etc. DTI appears to be more valuable in the evaluation of diffused diseases of organs with highly directionally arranged structures, such as the assessment of function impairment of native and transplanted kidneys. However, the utility of DTI to diagnose focal lesions remains limited. It is suggested that DTI parameters might potentially depict certain pathologic characterization such as cell density.
