Extracellular contrast-enhanced MRI with diffusion-weighted imaging for HCC diagnosis: prospective comparison with gadoxetic acid using LI-RADS

The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of introducing diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) as a major feature to extracellular agent (ECA)-MRI for diagnosing HCC in comparison with gadoxetic acid (hepatobiliary agent, HBA)-MRI using Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) v2018. This was a prospective intra-individual comparison study using two different types of contrast agents for liver MRI conducted at a...