Esophageal carcinoma: Intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion‐weighted MRI parameters and histopathological correlations

作者：Shaocheng Zhu, Yi Wei, Feifei Gao, Linlin Li, Yuehua Liu, Zixing Huang, Hehan Tang, Dandan Zheng, Xiaocheng Wei, Tingyi Sun, Bin Song · 发表于：Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging · 年份：2018 · DOI：10.1002/jmri.26172 · 被引用次数：21 · 研究领域：MRI in cancer diagnosis、Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment、Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Background The pathological grade of esophageal carcinoma is highly determinant of patient prognosis, but it still cannot be adequately evaluated preoperatively. Compared with conventional diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI), intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) diffusion‐weighted MRI can separate true molecular diffusion and perfusion in tissues and has been shown to be useful in characterizing malignant tumors. There is no report that compared IVIM and conventional DWI in grading esophageal carcinoma. Purpose To prospectively determine the diagnostic performance of conventional DWI and IVIM models in differentiating the pathological differentiated grade of esophageal carcinoma. Study Type Prospective. Population A cohort comprising 81 patients with newly diagnosed esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) between December 2015 and August 2017 were evaluated. Field Strength/Sequence 3.0T, axial echo‐planer imaging, fast spin echo (FSE) sequence, IVIM sequence (b = 0, 20, 50, 80, 100, 150, 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200). Assessment Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), true ADC (ADC slow ), pseudo ADC (ADC fast ), and perfusion fraction ( f ) of each tumor were calculated by two independent radiologists. Histopathologic grade was used as the reference standard. Statistical Tests Games‐Howell test; diagnostic accuracy; Spearman correlation; intraclass correlation coefficient; and Bland–Altman analysis. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves. Results ADC slow demonstrated...