Comparison of FRACTURE MRI, Conventional Radiography, and CT in the Evaluation of Bone Tumors.

ABSTRACT: Purpose To evaluate the intermodality and interobserver agreement of fast field echo resembling a CT using restricted echo-spacing (FRACTURE) MRI with conventional radiography and CT in assessing bone tumors. Materials and Methods This retrospective study included patients with histopathologically confirmed bone tumors who underwent FRACTURE MRI and radiography over a 10-month period; a subset also underwent CT. Two independent readers assessed lesion features across modalities, with agreement calculated using Cohen κ. Results Among 161 patients (median age, 18 years [IQR, 13.5-31]; 95 male), FRACTURE showed near-perfect/perfect agreement with conventional radiography for lesion type (κ = 0.96 and 0.86, for reader 1 and reader 2, respectively) and treatment response (κ = 1.00, 1.00), near-

SUBMITTER: Janu AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12862464 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature