ADC values in diffusion-weighted MRI and their relationship with age, gender and BMI in healthy people's pancreases

The aim of this study is to use diffusion-weighted MRI to assess the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values in head, body and tail sections of the pancreas in healthy subjects and the relationships between these values and age, gender and body mass index (BMI) of these cases. This study was conducted on 82 participants who were referred to the Tabesh Medical Imaging Center, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran, during 2013. Echo-planar diffusion-weighted imaging of the pancreas was carried out with b-values of 50, 400 and 800 s mm(-2), and ADC values were assessed for the head, body and tail sections of the pancreas. The ADC values for the head, body and tail sections of the pancreas in female participants were significantly greater than those in male subjects (p