Meningioma is a common intracranial tumor. Although most of them are benign
some lesions graded as World Health Organization (WHO) Ⅱ or Ⅲ exhibit invasiveness and poor prognosis. Therefore
it is important to determine the grading before surgery. At present
functional magnetic resonance imaging based on the diffusion properties of the tissues has become the first choice for preoperative diagnosis of meningioma. This paper reviewd the applications of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI)
intra-voxel incoherent motion DWI (IVIM-DWI)
diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI)
and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in the pathological grading of meningiomas.