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Abstract #0274

High Resolution Diffusion Weighted Imaging of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Using 2D Reduced Field of View Single-Shot Echo-Planar Imaging at 3.0 Tesla

Yan Li1, Chao Ma1, He Wang2, Shi Yue Chen1, Jian Ping Lu1

1Department of Radiology, Changhai Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China; 2MR Research China, GE Healthcare, Shanghai, China

Pancreatic cancer is one of the few cancers which have shown little improvement in survival over the past 30 years, with a 5-year survival rate of less than 5%. Combined with traditional MRI (such as T1WI, T2WI), Diffusion-weighed imaging (DWI) has showed high sensitivity and specificity in diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. We introduced a new way which may play a role in early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, using DWI.

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