Research Article

Perfusion-Diffusion Ratio: A New IVIM Approach in Differentiating Solid Benign and Malignant Primary Lesions of the Liver

Table 1

Acquisition parameters of liver MRI parameters (except for the DWI sequence).

SequencePlaneTRTESlice thicknessBreath

TrufiCoronal5051.75.0BH
T2 Haste FSCoronal12201035.0MBH
T2 HasteAxial1600915.0MBH
T2 HasteAxial16002015.0MBH
T2 Blade FSAxial6687905.0RT
T2 Haste FSAxial1900915.0MBH
VIBE DixonAxial3.31.33.0BH
TWIST VIBE Dixon + CAxial3.92.53.0BH
TWIST VIBE Dixon + CCoronal4.22.61.5BH

FS: fat suppressed; TR: repetition time; TE: echo time; BH: breath hold; MBH: multibreath hold; RT: respiratory triggered; +C: contrast enhanced.