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Intra-examination agreement between multi-echo gradient echo and confounder-corrected chemical shift-encoded MR sequences for R2* estimation as a biomarker of liver iron content in patients with a wide range of T2*/R2* and proton density fat fraction values
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Abdominal Radiology . Jul2023, Vol. 48 Issue 7, p2302-2310. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Purpose: To investigate the intra-examination agreement between multi-echo gradient echo (MEGE) and confounder-corrected chemical shift-encoded (CSE) sequences for liver T2*/R2* estimations in a wide range of T2*/R2* and proton density fat fraction (PDFF) values. Exploratorily, to search for the T2*/R2* value where the agreement line breaks and examine differences between regions of low and high agreement. Methods: Consecutive patients at risk for liver iron overload who underwent MEGE and CSE sequences within the same exam at 1.5 T were retrospectively selected. Regions of interest were drawn in the right and one in the left liver lobes on post-processed images for R2*(sec−1) and PDFF (%) estimation. Agreement between MEGE-R2* and CSE-R2* was evaluated using intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) and Bland–Altman analysis. 95% confidence intervals (CI) were computed. Segment-and-regression analysis was performed to find the point where the agreement between sequences is interrupted. Regions of low and high agreement were examined using tree-based partitioning analyses. Results: 49 patients were included. Mean MEGE-R2* was 94.2 s−1 (range: 31.0–737.1) and mean CSE-R2* 87.7 (29.7–748.1). Mean CSE-PDFF was 9.12% (0.1–43.3). Agreement was strong for R2* estimations (ICC: 0.992,95%CI 0.987,0.996), but the relation was nonlinear and possibly heteroskedastic. Lower agreement occurred when MEGE-R2* > 235 s−1, with MEGE-R2* values consistently lower than CSE-R2*. Higher agreement was observed when PDFF < 14%. Conclusion: MEGE-R2* and CSE-R2* strongly agree, though at higher iron content, MEGE-R2* is consistently lower than CSE-R2*. In this preliminary dataset, a breaking point for agreement was found at R2* > 235. Lower agreement was observed in patients with moderate to severe liver steatosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *IRON
*ECHO
*IRON overload
*INTRACLASS correlation
*PROTONS
*FAT
*LIVER
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2366004X
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Abdominal Radiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163964777
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-023-03902-4