The clinical advances of MR diffusion-weighted imaging in prostate cancer

Ultra-high-b-value diffusion-weighted MR imaging has been becoming the focus of functional imaging in prostate cancer in recent years, it can not only reflect the real diffusion characteristics,, but also provides qualitative and quantitative analysis in tissue structure and cell characteristics of prostate cancer. In this article, we reviewed the clinical applications and the future research trend of this technique in evaluation of prostate cancer. (authors)