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. 2017 Dec 7;91(1081):20170577. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20170577

Table 1.

+, agree but no consensus; *, agree with consensus; **, strongly agree with consensus

Harmonisation
One acquisition protocol should be created to cover all quantitative (response) assessment of metastatic disease (“one size fits all”) *
 Define Matrix size +
 Define Slice thickness *
 Define fat suppression technique *
 Define minimum number of b-values *
 Define min/max b-values *
 Whole body (head to mid-thigh) *
It should be possible to do quantitative (response) assessment on data from different scanners of the same manufacturer/model **
It should be possible to do quantitative (response) assessment on data from different scanners of different manufacturers *
An appropriately trained person should always perform a set up optimisation with a suitable test object. **
A regular QC test should be carried out with a suitable test object. **
It should be possible to define a post-processing pipeline that allows any ADC map from any scanner to be compared. **

ADC, apparent diffusion coefficient; QC, quality control;