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A total of 94 IVIM-DWI examinations were analysed. IVIM-DWI parame\u00adters were measured in the right lobe of the liver. The IVIM-DWI parameters of the patient and control groups were compared by Mann-Whitney U test. The patient group was classified into subgroups according to fibrosis stage of histopathological results. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was conducted to assess the sensitivity and specificity of each parameter for detection and staging fibrosis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>D and ADC values were significantly lower in the patient group compared to the control group (p &lt; 0.05), while D* values were significantly higher (p &lt; 0.05). No significant difference was observed in f values between the 2 groups. D* had the highest diagnostic performance, with a sensitivity of 78.1% and specificity of 73.3%, with a cut-off value of 1.4 \u00d7 10\u20133 mm2\/s in the differentiation of fibrosis stages.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>IVIM-DWI, particularly the D, D*, and ADC parameters, is an adjunctive non-invasive alternative to biopsy in the staging of HBV-related liver fibrosis, especially for the prediction of advanced fibrosis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.5114\/pjr\/199686","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,28]],"date-time":"2025-02-28T09:06:34Z","timestamp":1740733594000},"page":"66-73","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Predictive intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted imaging (IVIM-DWI) parameters in the staging of fibrosis in hepatitis B patients"],"prefix":"10.5114","volume":"90","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5749-8776","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Sevde Nur","family":"Emir","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9392-6907","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Fatma","family":"Kulali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6655-1014","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ilkay","family":"Tosun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3894-7107","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yasar","family":"Bukte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"3061","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref-1395004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Parola M, Pinzani M. 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