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ArticleEuropean journal of radiology open2022

Feasibility study of 2D Dixon-Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) of breast cancer.

Eloisa Zanderigo, Luisa Huck, Martina Distelmaier, Ebba Dethlefsen, Mirjam Maywald, Daniel Truhn, Timm Dirrichs, Mariya Doneva, Volkmar Schulz, Christiane K Kuhl and 1 more

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Article in European journal of radiology open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Eloisa ZanderigoDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Luisa HuckDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Martina DistelmaierDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Ebba DethlefsenDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Mirjam MaywaldDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Daniel TruhnDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Timm DirrichsDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Mariya DonevaTomographic Imaging Systems, Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany.
Volkmar SchulzPhysics of Molecular Imaging Systems, Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Christiane K KuhlDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Teresa NolteDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
RWTH Aachen University · DEPhilips (Germany) · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: Application of MRF to evaluate the feasibility of 2D Dixon blurring-corrected MRF (2DDb-cMRF) to differentiate breast cancer (BC) from normal fibroglandular tissue (FGT). Methods: Prospective study on 14 patients with unilateral BC on 1.5 T system/axial T2w-TSE sequence, 2DDb-cMRF, B1 map, dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) T1-w GE-series. Mean T1 and T2 values and standard deviations were computed in the BC-/FGT-ROI on pre-/post-contrast MRF-maps and their differences were tested by two-tailed student t-test.Accuracy and repeatability of MRF were evaluated in a phantom experiment with gelatin with Primovist surrounded by fat.The T1 reduction between pre-/post-contrast MRF-maps was correlated to DCE signal enhancement in the last image post-contrast through the Pearson´s correlation coefficient (r) and for the phantom validation experiment through the Lin's concordance correlation coefficient (CCC).Visual evaluation of cancers on MRF-Maps was performed by rating each MRF-Map by 3 radiologists. Results: T1- and T2-MRF values of BC vs. FGT were for T1 and T2 pre-contrast respectively: 1147 ± 1 ms vs. 1052 ± 9 ms (p = 0.007) and 83 ± 1 ms vs. 73 ± 1 ms (p = 0.03); post-contrast respectively: 367.3 ± 121.5 ms vs. 690.3 ± 200.3 ms (p = 0.0005) and 76.9 ± 11.5 ms vs. 69.8 ± 15.2 ms (p = 0.12). r was positive (FGT r = 0.7; BC r = 0.6). CCC was 0.999 for T1 and 0.994 for T2. In the T1- and T2-MRF-Maps before contrast respectively (7,7,8)/14 and (5,9,8)/14 cancers were visible to the readers; afterwards, (11,12,12)/14 and (5,6,11)/14. Conclusions: MRF is promising for distinction between BC and FGT as well as for analyzing pre-/post-contrast T1 changes. However, its potential for differential diagnosis warrants further studies.

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Breast cancerBreast diagnosticMagnetic Resonance FingerprintingMagnetic resonance imagingQuantitative MRI

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