Research Article

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

Table 4

Histogram parameters of white matter from the ASL and MB-DWI from histogram analysis as well as ROC analysis in HGG and LGG (mean ± SD).

White matterHGGLGGTest type

CBFMean (mL/100 g/min)25.25 ± 3.4627.64 ± 8.21mw0.733
Median (mL/100 g/min)25.69 ± 5.1527.33 ± 7.48mw0.649
Maximum (mL/100 g/min)38.62 ± 5.2342.91 ± 12.49mw0.955
Minimum (mL/100 g/min)13.82 ± 5.4415.91 ± 7.79mw0.459
90th percentile (mL/100 g/min)33.62 ± 4.7535.18 ± 10.94mw0.459
Standard deviation (mL/100 g/min)6.77 ± 3.626.14 ± 2.39mw0.331
Skewness2.37 ± 7.862.32 ± 0.47mw0.776
Kurtosis2.38 ± 0.452.86 ± 0.55mw0.03

Mean (10−3 mm2/s)2.5 ± 0.182.52 ± 0.29mw0.691
Median (10−3 mm2/s)2.44 ± 0.182.48 ± 0.27mw0.91
Maximum (10−3 mm2/s)3.72 ± 0.623.79 ± 0.65mw0.733
Minimum (10−3 mm2/s)1.76 ± 0.161.82 ± 0.19tt0.429
90th percentile (10−3 mm2/s)2.99 ± 0.342.95 ± 0.26tt0.992
Standard deviation (10−3 mm2/s)0.42 ± 0.110.39 ± 0.09tt0.453
Skewness0.68 ± 0.360.75 ± 0.32tt0.627
Kurtosis3.49 ± 1.243.88 ± 1.2mw0.459

Mean (10−3 mm2/s)0.41 ± 0.020.41 ± 0.02tt0.801
Median (10−3 mm2/s)0.4 ± 0.020.41 ± 0.02tt0.473
Maximum (10−3 mm2/s)0.47 ± 0.030.49 ± 0.04tt0.161
Minimum (10−3 mm2/s)0.35 ± 0.030.33 ± 0.02tt0.083
90th percentile (10−3 mm2/s)0.44 ± 0.030.45 ± 0.02tt0.385
Standard deviation (10−3 mm2/s)0.03 ± 0.010.04 ± 0.01mw0.252
Skewness0.11 ± 0.63−0.11 ± 0.34 tt0.308
Kurtosis2.56 ± 0.662.47 ± 0.41tt0.707

Mean (10−3 mm2/s)0.32 ± 0.030.29 ± 0.01mw0.207
Median (10−3 mm2/s)0.3 ± 0.020.29 ± 0.01mw0.608
Maximum (10−3 mm2/s)0.4 ± 0.080.37 ± 0.04mw0.331
Minimum (10−3 mm2/s)0.25 ± 0.020.26 ± 0.01mw0.82
90th percentile (10−3 mm2/s)0.37 ± 0.080.33 ± 0.03mw0.15
Standard deviation (10−3 mm2/s)0.04 ± 0.030.02 ± 0.01mw0.207
Skewness0.54 ± 0.470.47 ± 0.76tt0.785
Kurtosis3.07 ± 1.413.41 ± 0.84mw0.106

ADCMean (10−3 mm2/s)0.53 ± 0.030.53 ± 0.01tt0.857
Median (10−3 mm2/s)0.53 ± 0.030.53 ± 0.02tt0.988
Maximum (10−3 mm2/s)0.64 ± 0.080.62 ± 0.05tt0.64
Minimum (10−3 mm2/s)0.46 ± 0.020.45 ± 0.02tt0.293
90th percentile (10−3 mm2/s)0.59 ± 0.080.58 ± 0.05tt0.826
Standard deviation (10−3 mm2/s)0.04 ± 0.020.04 ± 0.02mw0.82
Skewness0.45 ± 0.80.13 ± 0.57tt0.278
Kurtosis3.28 ± 1.472.78 ± 0.74mw0.392

Statistically significant values are presented in bold font. mw: Mann-Whitney test, tt: Student’s -test. LGG: low  grade  gliomas, WM: contralateral semioval center. AUC: area under the curve.