Course book Advanced Treatment Planning 2018

DWI images – ADC maps

• ADC mapping allows to obtain more informations on the biological “nature” of the tissues

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Acute lesion (ischemic)

oedema

ADC ADC ADC ADC

➢ Chronic lesion (post-ischemic) relaxing tissues

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Neoplastic lesions Neoplastic lesions

high cellularity

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necrosis

I Berry. Imagerie par résonance magnétique. 2004; Masson Editeur, Paris.