About this trial
hrDWI might be an alternative to cDWI for the prostate imaging.
1. increase the signal-to-noise ratio and contrast-to-noise ratio, yielding high-fidelity images with less noise in general 2. improve the diagnostic accuracy of PCa in particular than conventional DWI
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Patients who underwent standard MR scanning including T2WI, cDWI , hrDWI and respective calculated apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps;
Complete clinical information.
Disqualifiers
None
Trial population
Men larger than 55 years old were eligible to participate if they had a clinical suspicion of PCa with no previous biopsy. This included those with elevated PSA (\> 4 ng/ml), or with suspicious digital rectal examination findings, or with suspicious findings on ultrasound examination, or with a family history of PCa.
Trial design
Case-only
Prospective
Treatments tested in this trial
Not listed
Trial groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
image quality evaluation
objective and subjective image quality and lesion conspicuity
Secondary outcomes
prostate cancer diagnosis
the diagnostic accuracy of prostate cancer
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