Abstract #1272

Respiratory-Triggered High-B-Value Diffusion-Weighted Imaging for the Assessment of Inflammatory Activity in Crohns Disease: A Preliminary Study

Qi Feng¹, Jiong Zhu¹, Qing Lu¹, He Wang², Jia Hua¹, Jianrong Xu¹

¹Renji Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, China; ²Applied Science Lab, GE Healthcare, Shanghai, China

Diffusion-weighted imaging sequences at high b values could identify disease-active and disease-inactive intestinal segments clearly and a b value of 1500 offered the best balance of diagnostic sensitivity and specificity in this current study.