Research Article

Values of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient and Lesion-to-Spinal Cord Signal Intensity in Diagnosing Solitary Pulmonary Lesions: Turbo Spin-Echo versus Echo-Planar Imaging Diffusion-Weighted Imaging

Table 2

The mean ADC and LSR of TSE-DWI and EPI-DWI.

ParametersBenignMalignant

TSE
ADC (-3 mm2/s)1.700 (0.725)1.326 (0.366)-2.5980.009
LSR0.757 (0.354)1.304 (0.780)-2.2910.022
EPI
ADC (-3 mm2/s)1.600 (0.616)1.229 (0.327)-2.6730.008
LSR0.603 (0.386)1.073 (0.471)-2.9410.003

Note: data as median (IQR); Mann–Whitney test.