The method of assessment of the “skin effect” for chloride ingress into concrete has been proposed, based on the inverse problem for the identification of at-surface variability of chloride diffusivity under fully saturated conditions. Fo...
Fresh black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) have a high moisture content that complicates storage and requires energy-intensive postharvest drying. This study evaluated the effects of drying-air temperature and tray rotation speed on BSFL drying kinetics,...
Background and Objectives: Accurate noninvasive differentiation between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) remains a clinical challenge. This study aimed to assess the dignostic performance of apparent diffusion...
Diffusion weighted imaging can provide information regarding tissue composition and can quantitatively characterize different pathological changes by means of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC). The study comprised of 114 patients with liver cirrho...
Relevant to co-clinical trials, the goal of this work was to assess repeatability, reproducibility, and bias of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) for preclinical MRIs using standardized procedures for comparison to performance of clinical MRIs...
Background: Microwave ablation (MWA) is an effective, minimally invasive therapy for benign thyroid nodules; however, the treatment response varies considerably. Identifying imaging biomarkers that can predict volumetric outcomes may optimize patient...
Background/Objectives: This work prospectively evaluates the vendor-provided Low Variance (LOVA) apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) gradient nonlinearity correction (GNC) technique for primary tumors, neck nodal metastases, and normal masseter musc...
For certain clinical circumstances, the differentiation between cerebellar medulloblastoma and brainstem glioma is essential. We aimed to evaluate the role played by the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values in the differentiation between cereb...
Preoperative differentiation between pathological T3 (pT3) disease, representing locally advanced tumor confined to the larynx, and pathological T4 (pT4) disease, characterized by extension through the laryngeal cartilage and/or beyond the larynx, re...
Background: Several studies have investigated the potential role of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging as a biomarker of high-grade and invasive bladder cancer. Methods: PubMed and the Coch...
This paper investigates alkali leaching from geopolymers under various concentrations of acetic acid solutions. The effects of the raw metakaolin purity as well as fly ash-based geopolymer mortars and pastes are considered. A new methodology for (ace...
Distinguishing treatment-related abnormalities (TRA) from tumor progression (TP) in glioblastoma patients is a diagnostic imaging challenge due to the identical morphology of conventional MR imaging sequences. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and its...
Objectives: This exploratory preclinical study aimed to compare the correlations of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and native T1 mapping histogram features with tumor cell proliferation, microvessel density (MVD), and extracellular matrix compo...
Background: In this study, we aimed to evaluate the feasibility of a whole-tumor histogram analysis of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values derived from diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) for predicting adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) histologica...
Background/Objectives: Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) calculated from diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) can predict tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. However, obtaining consistently adequate image quality in breast DWI ca...
Purpose: Although the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value from diffusion-weighted imaging can provide insights into various pathological processes, no studies have examined the relationship between the pre-concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) m...
This study aimed to develop an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) ratio-based prognostic model to predict the recurrence and disease-free survival (DFS) of oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (OTSCC). A total of 188 patients with cT1-2 oral tongue...
Background: The aim of the study is to identify the advantages, if any, of post-operative MRIs performed at 48 h compared to MRIs performed after 48 h in glioblastoma surgery. Materials and Methods: To assess the presence of a residual tumor, the T1-...
This retrospective single-center study included patients diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) using preoperative pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of the axial MRI maps that included the large...
Purpose: To evaluate the amide proton transfer (APT), tumor blood flow (TBF), and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) combined diagnostic value for differentiating intracranial malignant tumors (MTs) from benign tumors (BTs) in young patients, as de...
Background: The role of advanced functional imaging techniques in prediction of pathological risk categories of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) is still unknown. The purpose of this study was to evaluate classical CT features, CT-perfusion and...
Background/Objectives: To evaluate the diagnostic potential of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values for classifying lymph nodes as benign or malignant in breast cancer patients undergoing [18F]FDG-PET/MRI staging. Methods: Mean ADC values and...
Background/Objectives: To analyze the predictive value of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in patients with prostate cancer (PCa) treated with radiotherapy (RT) and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Methods: Retrospective study of patients...
Purpose: This study evaluates the combined prognostic value of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) from multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels at 6 months post-radiotherapy (RT) in assessing treatment response in...
This study aimed to evaluate potential posttreatment changes in ADC values within the tissue surrounding the enhancing lesion, particularly in areas not exhibiting MRI characteristics of involvement. Additionally, the objective was to investigate the...
The knowledge of soil apparent thermal diffusivity (k) is important for investigating soil surface heat transfer and temperature. Long-term k determined using the near-surface soil temperature is limited on the Tibetan Plateau (TP). The main objectiv...
Prostate cancer is one of the most common tumors among the male population. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), standardized by the PI-RADS version 2.1 scoring system, has a fundamental role in detecting prostate cancer and evaluating its aggressivenes...
Based on fractal geometry theory, the Hagen–Poiseuille law, and the Langmuir adsorption law, this paper established a mathematical model of gas flow in nano-pores of shale, and deduced a new shale apparent permeability model. This model conside...
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) can differentiate malignant from benign pulmonary nodules. However, it is difficult to differentiate pulmonary abscesses and mycobacterial infections (PAMIs) from lung cancers because PAMIs show res...
We evaluated the usefulness of simple diffusion kurtosis (SD) imaging, which was developed to generate diffusion kurtosis images simultaneously with an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) map for 27 cystic disease lesions in the head and neck region...
Radon-resistant membranes and other barrier materials are widely used to limit soil-gas entry into buildings, yet published radon diffusion coefficients are difficult to compare because the reported measurand, boundary conditions, leakage treatment,...
Purpose: To investigate the diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) findings and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value of the thymus in children under the age of 13 who have non-thymic neoplasms. Materials and Methods: From January 2021 to April 2023,...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the value of diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) in differentiating benign and malignant head and neck masses by comparing their apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values. The study included 32 patients with a...
Introduction: Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) has shown its potential as a reliable noninvasive technique for tissue characterization. DWI reflects the tissue specific diffusion capacity which can be used for tissue characterization. Hypercellular t...
Cardiac motion causes unpredictable signal loss in respiratory-triggered diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) of the liver, especially inside the left lobe. The left liver lobe may thus be frequently neglected in the clinical evaluatio...
Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value is a relatively new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequence that provides functional information on the lesion by measuring the microscopic movement of water molecu...
The aim of this study was to demonstrate the correlation between ADC values and the ADC/PSAD ratio for potentially malignant prostate lesions classified into ISUP grades and to determine threshold values to differentiate benign lesions (noPCa), clini...
Background/Objectives: Mean kurtosis (MK) values in simple diffusion kurtosis imaging (SDI)—a type of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI)—have been reported to be useful in the diagnosis of head and neck malignancies, for which pre-processin...
Detection, characterization, staging, and response assessment are key steps in the imaging pathway of ovarian cancer. The most common type, high grade serous ovarian cancer, often presents late, so that accurate disease staging and response assessmen...
Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values, derived from diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI), increase with age, reflecting microstructural changes in white matter integrity. However, factors beyond chronological aging may influen...
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is important for tumor metastasis. Detection of EMT protein expression and observation of morphological changes are commonly used to identify EMT. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) and meas...
This paper aims to develop a chloride transport model of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) that can consider the influence of both exposure time and crack width. ECC specimens with crack widths of 0.1 mm, 0.2 mm and 0.3 mm were soaked into NaC...
Noninvasive imaging methods are sought to objectively predict early response to therapy for high-grade glioma tumors. Quantitative metrics derived from diffusion-weighted imaging, such as apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), have previously shown pr...
This study evaluated the hypothesis that 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET SUV, obtained via an advanced DL approach, correlates better with MR ADC maps than values from conventional PET-MR. Additionally, we aimed to identify the optimal SUV threshold for maximum cor...
This paper deals with the problem of the influence of surface topography on the results of thermal diffusivity measurements when determined using the instantaneous surface heat source method, also called the pulse method. The analysis was based on nu...
This work aims at assessing the impact of two-dimensional particle size distribution (2D-PSD) on the identification of water vapor diffusivity in micrometric size cellulose particles displaying a size aspect ratio lower than 2 and a cylindrical shape...
Cyst-predominant anterior mediastinal lesions are commonly attributed to benign thymic cysts. However, thymomas—the most common thymic epithelial tumor—may rarely present as a predominantly cystic mass with only a small solid component, p...
This paper presents an analysis of the molecular mechanisms involved in the formation of inclusion complexes together with some structural interpretation of drug–carrier molecule interactions in aqueous multicomponent systems comprising methylx...
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and heterogeneous disease characterized by demyelination and axonal loss and damage. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been employed to distinguish these changes in various types of MS lesions. Obje...
Background: To use the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) as reliable biomarkers, validation of MRI equipment performance and clinical acquisition protocols should be performed prior to application in patients. This study aims to validate various M...
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