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Abstract #4065

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Elastography of Solid Pancreatic Masses

Yu Shi 1 , He An 1 , Qiyong Guo 1 , Richard L. Ehman 2 , and Kevin J. Glaser 2

1 Department of radiology, Shengjing hospital of china medical university, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, 2 Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

In this prospective study,ten healthy volunteers and 26 patients with pancreatic masses undertook MR Elastography on a 3T scanner to evaluate its usefulness for differentiating benign and malignant solid pancreatic lesions. The mean stiffness value of healthy pancreas was (1.120.11) kPa. Malignant lesion[(2.701.20) kPa] has much higher stiffness than both mass-forming pancreatitis[(1.590.31) kPa] and healthy pancreas.Mass-forming pancreatitis has slightly higher stiffness than healthy pancreas, but with apparent overlapping.Our study proved MR elastography might be a potential tool to different solid pancreatic masses.

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