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Fig. 4

From: Locally advanced rectal cancer: 3D diffusion-prepared stimulated-echo turbo spin-echo versus 2D diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging

Fig. 4

Tumour ADC values for 31 patients obtained by DPsti-TSE and DW-EPI methods. The box plots show the 75th, 50th and 25th percentile of ADC values for all 29 patients. For the same patients, ADC values from DPsti-TSE and DW-EPI are connected. The DPsti-TSE method generated higher tumour ADC values than the DW-EPI method: (1.47 ± 0.32) × 10−3 mm2/s and (0.86 ± 0.15) × 10−3 mm2/s, respectively (p < 0.001). (ADC apparent diffusion coefficient, DPsti-TSE diffusion-prepared stimulated echo turbo spin-echo, DW-EPI diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging)

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