Abstract #3637

Optimization of B-Values for Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging in Patients with Glioblastoma

Masaki Katsura¹, Masaaki Hori², Issei Fukunaga³, Fumitaka Kumagai³, Hiroki Sasaki¹, Harushi Mori¹, Akira Kunimatsu¹, Yoshitaka Masutani¹, Keigo Shimoji², Atsushi Nakanishi², Shigeki Aoki², Kuni Ohtomo¹

¹Radiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; ²Radiology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan; ³Graduate School of Health Promotion Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

In the current study on clinical cases with glioblastoma, we performed diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) fitting analyses by applying different combination of b-values. It is crucial that an appropriate b-value combination be independently established for pathologic brain tissue before applying DKI to clinical practice.