Author(s)

Cecilia Thung

Affiliation(s)

Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA.

Corresponding Author

Cecilia Thung

ABSTRACT

Liver cancer is one of the common malignant tumors in my country. Timely diagnosis and treatment of small liver cancer are crucial to improving patient prognosis and survival rate. In recent years, with the rapid development of MRI diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) technology, it has been widely used in the diagnosis and treatment of abdominal diseases. Currently, the detection rate and diagnosis rate of MRI for small liver cancer are better than those of CT and ultrasound. The combined application of DWI sequence is of great significance for the diagnosis of small liver cancer. This article reviews the application value of DWI imaging technology in the clinical diagnosis of small liver cancer.

KEYWORDS

Small liver cancer; Magnetic resonance imaging; Diffusion weighted imaging; Apparent diffusion coefficient

CITE THIS PAPER

Cecilia Thung. An in-depth study of the diagnostic utility of magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging in the identification of early-stage liver cancer. World Journal of Clinical Sciences. 2024, 2(2): 6-9. DOI: 10.61784/wjcsv2n233.

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