Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition

Body Diffusion MRI Applications

Digital Poster

Diffusion

Monday, 11 May 2026

Digital Posters Row G

17:05 - 18:00

Session Number: 366-06

No CME/CE Credit

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This session showcases diffusion MRI applications in the body using a range of diffusion MRI methods such as diffusion tensor imaging, time-dependent diffusion MRI, IVIM and more.

		366-06-001. Predicting Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Response Pattern in Luminal B Breast Cancer Using DCE-MRI and IVIM Shuo Wang, Moyun Zhang, Xinyue Yin, Zhitian Guo, Lina Zhang, Haonan Guan The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China Impact: Integrating perfusion (CER) and diffusion (D) parameters offers a practical imaging biomarker for evaluating NAC response patterns in Luminal B breast cancer, potentially guiding personalized surgical strategies and optimizing therapeutic decisions.
		366-06-002. Integrated PET-IVIM-DKI MRI for predicting lymphovascular invasion in NSCLC. Qianqian Chen, Fangfang Fu, Nan Meng, Yue Liu, Jingwen Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Yang Yang, Zhe Wang, Qiuyu Ji, jiayin pan, Meiyun Wang Zhengzhou University People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou, China Impact: This integrated PET-IVIM-DKI model provides a powerful, non-invasive tool for preoperative LVI prediction in NSCLC, potentially improving risk stratification and guiding personalized treatment strategies.
		366-06-003. Intravoxel Incoherent Motion MRI for Early Detection of Synovitis in Preclinical Rheumatoid Arthritis Yunping Yi, Jun Peng, Siwei Zhang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, China Impact: IVIM MRI provides a non-invasive, contrast-free method to identify early synovial perfusion changes, supporting timely detection and monitoring of preclinical rheumatoid arthritis.
		366-06-004. Fasciculation volume measured with stimulated echo diffusion-weighted MRI correlates with muscle weakness in older adults Gabrielle Baxter, Santiago Coelho, Smita Rao, Thorsten Feiweier, Els Fieremans, Valentina Mazzoli Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI²R), New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, United States of America Impact: Volume of fasciculation, optimally detected using Stimulated Echo encoding DWI at a diffusion time of 200ms, correlates negatively with force production in older adults and could act as a useful neuromuscular biomarker of muscle strength.
		366-06-005. Correlation and Diagnostic Performance of MR Elastography and IVIM-Based Virtual MRE in Pulmonary Neoplasms Yonghao Du, Ting Liang, Shuo Zhang, Lile Guo, Xuyin Zhang, Kai AI, Gang Niu The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China Impact: This study represents the first simultaneous application of MRE and vMRE for lung stiffness correlation analysis. The results indicate satisfactory consistency between the two methods and highlight their combined potential to enhance clinical diagnosis.
		366-06-006. Diffusion Tensor Imaging Quantifies Microstructure to Distinguish Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy from Hypertensive Heart Disease Yujie Liu National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China Impact: Cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (cDTI) enables non-invasive, in vivo characterization of myocardial microstructure by measuring water diffusion and provides means of phenotyping the underlying pathophysiology and discerns the fundamental substrates in HCM and HHD.
		366-06-007. UTE-DESS-based Diffusion Tensor Imaging for Detecting Degeneration in Meniscus: An Ex Vivo Study Jinil Park, Sam Sedaghat, Eddie Fu, Stefan Sommer, Lumeng Cui, Youngkyoo Jung, Abhijit Chaudhari, Lorenzo Nardo, Hyungseok Jang University of California, Berkeley, United States of America Impact: This study demonstrates that UTE-DESS-DTI provides a sensitive quantitative biomarker for assessing meniscal collagen and proteoglycan degeneration, offering a comprehensive and quantitative diagnostic tool for degenerative joint disorders like osteoarthritis.
		366-06-008. Time-Dependent Diffusion MRI for Cervical Cancer Subtype Differentiation : A Comparison of ROI Delineation Strategies Xuelin Ma, Xiaolei Dong, Siqi Yi, Meining Chen, Wei Sheng, Thorsten Feiweier, Peng Zhou, Xiaoli Chen Department of Radiology, Beijing, China Impact: Time-dependent diffusion MRI enables noninvasive prediction of cervical cancer subtypes, with the single-slice ROI method showing superior diagnostic performance and strong potential for clinical translation.
		366-06-009. Time-dependent diffusion MRI for early prediction of pCR to neoadjuvant immunotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer Ziwei Jin, Lan Zhang, Na Hao, Peng Sun, Ning Zheng, Xin Li Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jiefang Avenue #1277, Wuhan 430022, Hubei Province, China Impact: t_d-dMRI captures early microstructural shifts after short-course radiotherapy in participants with LARC, facilitating selection of patients who are eligible for neoadjuvant immunotherapy in the early stage of treatment and potentially reducing unnecessary toxicity and overtreatment.
		366-06-010. Heart Failure with Recovered Ejection Fraction Patients Exhibit Myocardial Disorganization via Diffusion Tensor MRI Nandan Kodur, Moses Cook, Danielle Kara, Thomas Garrett, W. H. Wilson Tang, Christopher Nguyen Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States of America Impact: Diffusion tensor imaging reveals persistent myocardial microstructural disorganization in clinically stable patients with recovered ejection fraction, despite normalized cardiac function and biomarkers. These findings suggest some patients remain in remission rather than true recovery, enabling more personalized heart failure management.
		366-06-011. Fluid Retention in Muscles through the Menstrual Cycle Carly Jones, Francesca Belibi, Emma Sachs, Madison George, Emily Kraus, Garry Gold Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America Impact: Improving our understanding of muscle changes through the menstrual cycle has implications for long-term female musculoskeletal health.
		366-06-012. Diffusion weighted imaging and Diffusion tensor imaging show cortical alterations in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients Edin Zahirovic, Andreas Jönsen, Zahra Najeeb, Anders Bengtsson, Kristoffer Zervides, Markus Nilsson, Pia Maly Sundgren Lund University, Lund, Sweden Impact: Our findings demonstrate that DTI can detect microstructural alterations in the brains of SLE patients even when conventional anatomical MRI does not. This suggests that diffusion imaging may offer a novel way of detecting subtle cortical involvement in SLE.
		366-06-013. Comparative study of FOCUS MUSE and single-short EPI DWI for distinguishing lung adenocarcinoma from squamous cell carcinoma Jie Li, Jiankun Dai, Yi Xia The Second Affiliated Hospital of Naval Medical University, SHANGHAI, China Impact: Although adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) are divided into non-small cell lung cancers, they have distinct biological signatures and clinical implications. The improvement of differentiation between AC and SqCC would be beneficial for clinical management of lung cancer.
		366-06-014. Prostate Microstructure Imaging using diffusion MRI and T2 relaxation at varying echo times and short diffusion times Ante Zhu, Yousef Mazaheri, maggie fung, Xinzeng Wang, Patricia Lan, Jennifer McNab, Thomas Foo, Oguz Akin GE HealthCare, San Ramon, United States of America Impact: Characterization of the heterogeneous lesions with different compositions of tissue microstructures in prostate cancer, including epithelium, stroma, and lumen, can benefit from diffusion MRI at varying echo times and at varying short diffusion times using oscillating gradient diffusion encoding.