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Quantitative biomarkers for distinguishing bone metastasis and benign bone marrow lesions using turbo spin echo T1- and T2-weighted Dixon imaging at 3.0 T.

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Objective

To assess the diagnostic performance and calculate the optimal threshold for quantitative biomarkers to differentiate bone metastasis and benign bone marrow lesions using turbo spin echo (TSE) Dixon images with a 3.0 T scanner.

Materials and methods

Each 100 patients diagnosed with bone metastases and variable benign bone marrow lesions on spine MRI were included retrospectively. Images included in-phase (IP), opposed-phase (OP), water images (WI), and fat images (FI) by the TSE Dixon technique with T1WI and T2WI using a 3.0 T scanner. Regions of interest (ROI) of the lesions were manually drawn by two musculoskeletal radiologists independently, and the average signal intensity was recorded. The signal reduction rate from IP to OP (%drop) and a fat fraction (%fat) were calculated.

Results

All biomarkers showed a significant difference between metastatic and benign lesions (P < 0.001). When comparing the AUCs, the %drop of T1WI had the highest AUC (0.934). Although the AUC of %fat from T2WI was significantly lower than that of other biomarkers, the %drop of T2WI was not significantly different from the %drop of T1WI (p = 0.339). The optimal threshold of %drop to differentiate metastatic and benign lesions was 22.0 in T1WI and 15.9 in T2WI. The inter-reader agreement was excellent for all biomarkers (0.82-0.86).

Conclusion

While %drop of T1WI showed the highest diagnostic performance to differentiate bone metastasis from benign lesions, the %drop of T2WI showed a comparable ability using a threshold 15.9.

SUBMITTER: Ogiwara S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10711189 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Quantitative biomarkers for distinguishing bone metastasis and benign bone marrow lesions using turbo spin echo T1- and T2-weighted Dixon imaging at 3.0 T.

Ogiwara Sho S Fukuda Takeshi T Yonenaga Takenori T Ogihara Akira A Ojiri Hiroya H

European journal of radiology open 20231130

<h4>Objective</h4>To assess the diagnostic performance and calculate the optimal threshold for quantitative biomarkers to differentiate bone metastasis and benign bone marrow lesions using turbo spin echo (TSE) Dixon images with a 3.0 T scanner.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>Each 100 patients diagnosed with bone metastases and variable benign bone marrow lesions on spine MRI were included retrospectively. Images included in-phase (IP), opposed-phase (OP), water images (WI), and fat images (FI) by ...[more]

PMID: 38090023

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