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Résumé : Purpose: To prospectively assess chemotherapy-induced changes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) with diffusion-weighted (DW)-MR quantitative metrics, including apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and histogram-derived parameters, compared with RECIST 1.1. Methods: 24 patients underwent DW-MR at baseline, week-2 and week-8 after chemotherapy initiation. Tumour diameter was assessed on T2-weighted images. Regions-of-interest (ROI) were drawn on ADC map for ROI-ADC. Volume segmentation (b = 1000 s/mm2 images) provided DW-volume and histogram-derived diffusion parameters (H-ADC, H-D and H-PF). All variables and their relative change were compared to baseline or between responders and non-responders. Discriminant analysis was performed. Results: 15/24 patients were responders. RECIST 1.1 correctly characterized 6/15 responders at week-8. At week-2, in responders DW-volume decreased (P =.002); ROI-ADC mean H-D increased (P =.047; P =.048;). The 25th percentile H-D increased in responders and decreased in non-responders (P =.016; P =.048). At week-8 in responders DW-volume decreased and ROI-ADC mean, 25th, 50th, 75th percentiles of H-ADC and H-D increased (P <.05). No changes were observed in non-responders (P >.05). At week-2, 25th percentile of H-D and H-PF relative change correctly classified 20/24 patients (P =.003); at week-8, DW-volume relative change correctly classified 22/24 patients (P <.0001). Conclusions: ROI-ADC, DW-volume and histogram-derived diffusion parameters are more accurate to categorize responding and non-responding PDA patients treated with chemotherapy compared with RECIST 1.1.

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