Research Article

Comparison of Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging and Arterial Spin Labeling MR Imaging in Gliomas

Table 2

Mean ASL and IVIM parameters in HGG and LGG as well as ROC analysis.

HGGLGGTest type valueAUCCutoff value

TumorTBF102.04 ± 45.5562.26 ± 18.13tt0.0110.78363.17
5.1 ± 3.392.77 ± 0.69mw0.0020.8573.5
0.69 ± 0.090.81 ± 0.12tt0.0130.8180.58
0.4 ± 0.110.49 ± 0.1tt0.0390.7690.43
ADC0.85 ± 0.091.04 ± 0.13tt0.0010.850.96

WMCBF25.25 ± 3.4627.64 ± 8.21mw0.733
2.5 ± 0.182.52 ± 0.29mw0.691
0.41 ± 0.020.41 ± 0.02tt0.801
0.32 ± 0.030.29 ± 0.01mw0.207
ADC0.53 ± 0.030.53 ± 0.01tt0.857

Significant values are indicated in bold font.  , , and ADC in 10−3 mm2/s. TBF and CBF are in mL/100 g/min. HGG: high grade gliomas, LGG: low grade gliomas, WM: contralateral semioval center. AUC: area under the curve. mw: Mann-Whitney test, tt: Student’s -test.