The value of diffusion kurtosis imaging for predicting two-year early recurrence (ER) of hepatocellular carcinoma after curative resection

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is viewed as the most frequent primary liver cancer and the third cause of cancer related death worldwide 1. The 5-year overall survival rate is only 30–40% after surgical resection and 70% of patients have a tumor recurrence within 5 years 2. we evaluated the discrimination power of Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging for predicting two-year early recurrence (ER) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after curative resection. Our resuts showed that DKI-based quantitative parameters might have acertain value inpredicting two-year early recurrence (ER) in HCC.