The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of post-processing method on the reproducibility of brain diffusion metrics, including apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs) and intra-voxel incoherent motion (IVIM) parameters, in healthy controls and to apply these results in a cohort of brain tumor patients undergoing treatment. ADC was highly reproducible for all methods. The IVIM diffusion and perfusion fraction showed the highest reproducibility using constrained fitting, while IVIM pseudo-diffusion showed limited reproducibility. By establishing limits of repeatability for ADC and IVIM metrics, these methods can be applied in neuropathology to determine significant changes related to treatment effects.
This abstract and the presentation materials are available to members only; a login is required.