Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
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To investigate the biophysical meaning of Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging (DKI) parameters via correlations with the perfusion parameters obtained from a long Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI scan, in head and neck (HN) cancer. ⋯ A weak to intermediate correlation was found between DKI parameters and both Kep and ve. The kurtosis was associated to the intratumoral heterogeneity and complexity of the capillary permeability, expressed by En(Kep).