Diffusion-weighted imaging of pancreatic cancer

Table 1 Comparison of apparent diffusion coefficient values between different solid pancreatic neoplasms

Ref.	No. of patients	Field strength (T)	b-values(s/mm2)	Mean ± SD ADC values(× 10-3 mm2/s)	P value
Yao et al[18]	30 PDACs	3	0, 600	1.57 ± 0.26	< 0.001
	12 SPTs			1.05 ± 0.35
	15 PanNETs			1.62 ± 0.41
Barral et al[19]	18 malignant1	1.5	0, 400, 800	1.1502	< 0.05
	10 benign			2.4932
Lee et al[33]	47 PDACs	1.5	0, 500, 1000	1.23 ± 0.18	NS
	6 SPTs			1.16 ± 0.36
	5 PanNETs			1.30 ± 0.41

¹Including 13 PDACs;

²Median. T: Tesla; ADC: Apparent diffusion coefficient; PDAC: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; SPT: Solid pseudopapillary tumor; PanNET: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor; NS: Not statistically significant.